Themes and Motifs: Death Liminal
Description
For events in which the boundary between life and death is blurred, such as when Dewey Dell describes her father as looking "like right after the maul hits the steer and it no longer alive and dont yet know that it is dead." EKP
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
- Afterlife
- Ambiguous circumstances
- And inheritance
- Animal bear
- Animal Dog
- Animal horse
- Animal mule
- Anticipation of death
- Bones
- Burial
- Burial society
- Car accident
- Child
- Coffin
- Compared to living
- Compared to sleep
- Corpse
- Death by water / Drowning
- Death sentence
- Deathbed
- Denial
- Disease
- Dying wish
- Epitaph
- Eulogy
- Execution
- Funeral
- Funeral pyre / cremation
- Future
- Hearse
- Imagined
- In childbirth
- Indian burial practices
- Killing oneself slowly
- Left for dead
- Like death
- Longing for death
- Moment of
- Moving a dead body
- Murder
- Of parent
- Plane accident
- Preparing for death
- Respect
- Response to
- Spousal
- Suicide
- Suspicious
- Wake
Tagged Events
Cultural Issues: Identity, Personal›Emptying oneself | Sexuality›Virginity
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss | Animals›Geese | Character›Duty | Death›Anticipation of death | Death›Liminal | Meaning›Limitations of words / language | Naming | Recurring Tropes›Revenge
Relationships: Familial›Motherhood | Familial›Parents-children
Environment: Auditory›Sawing | Domestic Space›Kitchen
Cultural Issues: Gender›Labor | Health and Illness›Abortion | Health and Illness›Medical advice | Health and Illness›Obesity | Identity, Cultural›Rural