Monday, November 3, 2014

Thematic Threads in Caesar's Column

hunger - bread (3); insufficiently fed (30); struggle for food (32); starved generation (33); bread (34); foodless desert (37); starvation (38); food (56); mouths empty (74); Egypt starved (75); starve to death (84); lowest limit workmen can live (88); French starvation (91); waiting for hunger (92); howls of starvation (93); crops (99); work to maintain life (125); starvation as gate of heaven (129); make starvation impossible (132); starvation (133); scant supply of food (133); no means of subsistence (142); hungry eyes (144); bread (156); they will starve (173); starving children, starving in body and brain (200); starved his mind and heart and body (207); carloads of food (219); starving together (219); looking for food (221); millions starve (224); famine (224); starving creatures (225); abundant supply of food (236)

religion - Christianity (4); (33); devil's creed (33); God not at fault (57); speak out (74); religious fanatic (108); labor as inspiration from God (126); purify hearts (127); seize the clergyman (129); Christianity without Christ (130); Churches must rescue (131); heaven (134); crave food (136); brotherly love (137); slow stages/Christianity (143); king-devil (210); evil leaders (217); evil in human nature (228)

communism - (4); (72); interest on money (80); great works (83); abolish corporations (83); Karl Marx (125); abolish interest (234); state ownership (234); impoverished labor (235); fix wages (235); abundant supply of food (236); limitation on land and money (237)

social failure - (17); (30); mere existence (32); the poor (50); daughters in the brothel (129); self-generating evil (136); toil for others (194); savages (224); breaking strain (225)

race / social darwinism: - eyes (32); prey upon all (35); high blood (44); ruling classes/ same race and blood (54); blood/ancestors (66); law of heredity (68); breed extinct (70); man as beast (73); "coolies" (77); cunning (88); Russian Jew (100); exterminated (113); "almost like negroid" [Caesar] (116); "immigrant hordes" (126);  dark-faced, savage (129); Darwin hotel (139); Caesar a brute: "brute natural" (148); long pedigree (183); two shades of golden hair (184); Aryan ancestry (187); turn them into savages (209); looked like a negro (210); survival of the fittest (224); destruction of our race (225); evil in human nature (228);

economy - iron law of wages (33); slavery (37); slave (Estella) (47); live by toil (56); wealth (73); concentration of wealth (75); speculation (87); lowest limit workmen can live (88); valued for bank account (90); work to maintain life (125); gigantic combinations to plunder the poor (217); abolish interest (234); impoverished labor (235); fix wages (235); limitation on land and money (237)

morality - virtue breaks (38);universal justice (80); great injustice (115); lack of virtue (127); injustice and misery (131); no justice permitted (133); ashamed of poverty (162); not selfishness (168); only one interpretation (Christina) (179);

revolution - expected outbreak (49); volcanic (50); promised revolution (53); Brotherhood of Destruction (53); historical revolutions (54); "fire and sword" (54); destruction as "remedy" (54-5); San Domingo (56); breaking point (71); outbreak [1863, 1877] (77); France (91); eve of breakout (94); world's slavery (122); take possession of government (132); utter destruction of existing order (133); blow up the world (135); civilization should commit suicide (181); dead of a thousand battlefields: [zombies!!!!] (192); blowing open the banks (193); line of the barricade (197); internal volcanoes (197); ravenous multitude (198); human cyclone (198); under control of some species of discipline (198); grapes of wrath (200); Anarchy (214); death-cart (215); murdered men, women, and children (216); must establish government (219); instinct of such mobs (223); breaking strain (225)

government - sham (50); denied speech (57); bribery (71); plutocracy (71); ballot (72); human device (84); control over government (104); make tremendous massacre (105); rebellion crushed (106); coolly plot (112); rights of the people (128); keep the few happy (136); age of bribery (196); civilization is gone (199); evil leaders (217); corruption (217); must establish government (219); protect ourselves from ourselves (232); bribery (233); danger of upper classes (235); abundant supply of food (236); limitation on land and money (237); happy families (238)

misc details - Gatling Gun (55); Estella bondage (65); food drug (67);Demons (78); Executive Committee (98); Caesar story (99); Estella in masculine dress (108); corruption (123); telephone (140); marriage subplot (151); papa / presents (162); Nathan Brederhagan (165); Frank as Max the poor printer (180); recognizes his wife (214); gangs (224)

revenge - (70);young girls (102); revenge (200); revenge (208);

extreme violence - spy (134);dead lie in heaps (197); literally torn to pieces (198); dead bodies hammered (199); Count set on fire (208); column (211); hauling the dead (212); red spot on forehead / old man (215)

missing term: labor - begin again (224); impoverished labor (235); fix wages (235); poor man not worked to death (239)


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