Absalom, Absalom!, 4 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2017-11-30 10:50
Text: 
Absalom, Absalom!
Location: 
Sutpen Plantation in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)
Page Number: 
4
Order within Page: 
2
First 8-10 words of event: 
Then in the long unamaze Quentin seemed to watch
Page Event Ends: 
4
Era: 
Antebellum (1831-1860)
Characters Present: 
Thomas Sutpen
French Architect
Unnamed Twenty Original Sutpen Slaves
Characters Mentioned: 
Quentin Compson
Narrative Status: 
Hypothesized
Date: 
Saturday, June 1, 1833 to Monday, December 31, 1838
Summary: 

In a vision Quentin sees Sutpen, the architect and the slaves create Sutpen's Hundred "out of the soundless Nothing" (4). [SOURCE: Quentin; Narrator]

Chronological Order: 
47.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Vision, Allusion:Biblical, Aesthetics:Italics, Creation
Environment:
Atmospheric›Stillness | Auditory›Silence | Domestic Space›Garden | Natural›Dirt / Earth | Place›Plantation
Actions:
Mental›Envisioning | Mental›Imagining | Mental›Visualize | Perceptual›Listening | Perceptual›Looking | Perceptual›Seeing | Perceptual›Watching | Physical›Building | Physical›Clearing land | Physical›Dragging | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues:
History›Plantation culture | Progress›Clearing the land | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Imported | Slavery›Labor | Violence
Themes and Motifs:
Chaos/Order›Creating order | Chaos/Order›Creation | Chaos/Order›Order | Naming›Place name | Objects›Cards | Objects›Table | Past›As explanatory | Past›Past in present | Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics:
Allusion, Biblical›Genesis | Allusion, Biblical›God / Jehovah | Allusion, Biblical›Old Testament | Description›Landscape | Figures of Speech›Metaphor | Figures of Speech›Personification | Figures of Speech›Simile | Language›Abundance or flow of words | Language›Grandiloquence | Style›Long sentence | Style›Neologism | Style›Numerous adjectives | Symbolism›Hamsa | Typography/Orthography›Italics

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