J3. Motif tracker: recurring images by chapter. Both
Theme and motif. One line per book. Open a book for the full answer, charts and cited lines.
| Book | Genre | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island | Thriller and adventure | The sea-chest and oilskin packet, The one-legged man and fear of pursuit, Betrayal and false friendship |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | Thriller and adventure | Disguise and transformation, Flight and pursuit, Hidden knowledge and codes |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Thriller and adventure | Red hair and Elphberg blood, Deception and impersonation, Love versus duty |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Thriller and adventure | Exactitude and precision, Money as a tool and solution, Obstacles and narrow escapes |
| King Solomon's Mines | Thriller and adventure | Death in the wilderness, Hidden identity and disguise, Ancient treasure and lost civilisation |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Crime and mystery | Deduction from small details, The moor as a place of danger, mystery, and concealment, Hidden secrets and deception |
| A Study in Scarlet | Crime and mystery | Observation and deduction, The wedding ring, Blood and death |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Crime and mystery | Disguise and deception, Observation of small details, Sealed rooms and impossible crimes |
| The Moonstone | Crime and mystery | The Moonstone as a sacred object with a curse, Hidden evidence and secrets buried at the Shivering Sand, Paint stains as evidence of guilt or innocence |
| The Woman in White | Crime and mystery | The woman in white and white clothing, Secrets and hidden documents, Surveillance and being watched |
| Pride and Prejudice | Romance | First impressions and misjudgement, Pride and prejudice, Marriage as economic necessity |
| Persuasion | Romance | Vanity and appearance, Persuasion and its consequences, Constancy and inconstancy in love |
| Emma | Romance | Matchmaking and social management, Social rank and class boundaries, Letters and correspondence |
| Jane Eyre | Romance | Confinement and isolation, Fire and burning, Blindness and sight |
| Dracula | Gothic and horror | Crossing and protection, Darkness and light, Blood and transfusion |
| Frankenstein | Gothic and horror | Isolation and loneliness, Ambition and its destructive consequences, Appearance versus inner worth |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gothic and horror | The door, Deformity and disgust, Secrets and silence |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic and horror | Beauty and corruption, The portrait as mirror and conscience, Youth and eternal beauty as curse |
| Wuthering Heights | Gothic and horror | Isolation and confinement, Death and haunting, Books and education |
| The Turn of the Screw | Gothic and horror | The tower and the window, Beauty and innocence masking corruption, Silence and the unspeakable |
| The Time Machine | Science fiction | Light and darkness, Decay and ruin, Two worlds and two species |
| The War of the Worlds | Science fiction | Complacency and ignorance, The Heat-Ray as invisible death, Flight and evacuation |
| The Invisible Man | Science fiction | Wrapping, bandages, and concealment, Invisibility as isolation and curse, Violence and chaos |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Fantasy and children's | Size change and transformation, Nonsense logic and impossible things, Execution and death threats |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Fantasy and children's | Gray and colorless versus bright and magical, The yellow brick road, Appearance versus reality |
| The Secret Garden | Fantasy and children's | Locked doors and secrets, The robin as guide and symbol, Spring and renewal |
| The Wind in the Willows | Fantasy and children's | Water and movement, Home and belonging, Obsession and possession |
| Great Expectations | Literary | Iron, chains, and leg-irons as symbols of bondage and the past, Hands and their marks as indicators of hidden identity and truth, Decay, dust, and time stopped as symbols of Miss Havisham's frozen life |
| A Christmas Carol | Literary | Cold and frost as markers of Scrooge's inner state, Chains and bondage as consequences of greed, Light and darkness as markers of hope and despair |
| The Great Gatsby | Literary | The green light, Wealth and excess, The valley of ashes |
| Heart of Darkness | Literary | Darkness and light, The river as a living force, Eloquence and silence |
| Kidnapped | Thriller and adventure | Inheritance and family secrets, Journey and departure, Isolation and confinement |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Thriller and adventure | Poison and death, Hidden identities and disguise, Wealth and power |
| The Three Musketeers | Thriller and adventure | The stolen letter and letters as instruments of power and deception, Rings and jewels as tokens of love, betrayal, and identity, The fleur-de-lis brand as a mark of shame and criminal identity |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Thriller and adventure | The sea as both obstacle and ally, Navigation and charts as keys to understanding, Disguise and hidden identity |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Thriller and adventure | Disguise and hidden identity, The red flower and the star device, Betrayal and redemption |
| The Lost World | Thriller and adventure | Heroism and adventure as proof of worth, Evidence and proof versus skepticism, Isolation and entrapment |
| Captain Blood | Thriller and adventure | Geraniums and peaceful domesticity, Fate and destiny, Mercy and its consequences |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Crime and mystery | Hidden identity and secrets, Beauty as a weapon and mask, Fire and destruction |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Crime and mystery | Analytical power and observation, The locked room and impossible escape, Animal nature and instinct |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | Crime and mystery | Disguise and hidden identity, The wrong shape or form, Invisibility through ordinariness |
| The Big Bow Mystery | Crime and mystery | Locked doors and impossible circumstances, Fog and mist, The missing weapon |
| The Leavenworth Case | Crime and mystery | The locked house and sealed rooms, The pistol and its handling, Letters and written evidence |
| The Red Thumb Mark | Crime and mystery | Magnification and hidden details, Finger-prints and identity, Ingenious mechanical devices |
| The Amateur Cracksman | Crime and mystery | Ventilators and hidden passages, Disguise and false identity, Diamonds and jewels |
| The Secret Agent | Crime and mystery | Circles and drawing, Laziness and indolence, Blood and violence |
| Sense and Sensibility | Romance | Sense versus sensibility, Secrecy and concealment, Financial dependence and independence |
| North and South | Romance | North versus South, Illness and mortality, Hidden secrets and lies |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Romance | Vanity and self-regard, The valentine and its consequences, Fire and destruction |
| The Enchanted April | Romance | Light and beauty, Escape and freedom from duty, Solitude and intrusion |
| The Sheik | Romance | The desert as both freedom and trap, Breaking and taming, Jewels as symbols of possession |
| Daddy Long Legs | Romance | Tallness and the daddy-long-legs shadow, Writing and letters as connection, Orphan identity and asylum life |
| Carmilla | Gothic and horror | Mysterious beautiful women, Needle-like wounds and blood, Locked doors and impossible escapes |
| The Castle of Otranto | Gothic and horror | Supernatural portents and divine intervention, Hidden nobility and mistaken identity, Family curse and usurpation |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gothic and horror | The mask and hidden face, Music as power and seduction, The ring as protection and curse |
| The Great God Pan | Gothic and horror | The veil between worlds, Transformation and corruption, Multiple identities and hidden nature |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Gothic and horror | The yellow wallpaper, Medical authority and control, Creeping and crawling |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Gothic and horror | Forbidden knowledge, Dreams and visions, Ancient cults |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | Science fiction | The whip as a symbol of power and control, Animal eyes and luminosity as markers of inhuman nature, The House of Pain as the source of creation and destruction |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Science fiction | Obsession with knowledge and scientific discovery, Hidden secrets in old books and ancient texts, Fear and courage in the face of the unknown |
| A Princess of Mars | Science fiction | Death and resurrection, Kindness versus cruelty, Loyalty and sacrifice |
| Herland | Science fiction | Male assumptions about women proven wrong, Motherhood as sacred and central, Imprisonment and confinement |
| Flatland | Science fiction | Dimension and perspective, Perception and limitation, Aspiration and ambition |
| Erewhon | Science fiction | Mountains as barriers and mysteries, Inversion of moral and physical categories, Hypocrisy and concealment |
| The Last Man | Science fiction | Degradation and fallen status, Fate and prophecy, Death and decay |
| Through the Looking Glass | Fantasy and children's | Reversal and mirroring, Names and identity, Dreams and reality |
| A Little Princess | Fantasy and children's | Imagination and pretending as survival and transformation, Wealth and poverty, appearance versus reality, Kindness and compassion across boundaries |
| The Jungle Book | Fantasy and children's | Fire and the Red Flower, The Law of the Jungle, Aging and weakness |
| Five Children and It | Fantasy and children's | Sunset as a time limit and reset, Unintended consequences of wishes, Invisibility and hidden things |
| The Railway Children | Fantasy and children's | The railway as connector and messenger, Red flannel and rescue, Kindness rewarded |
| The Princess and the Goblin | Fantasy and children's | Light and darkness, Feet and shoes, Invisible thread |
| Peter and Wendy | Fantasy and children's | Growing up and staying young, The shadow as identity, The open window |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Fantasy and children's | Wrestling and physical strength as a measure of power and honour, Dreams and prophecy as guides to truth and destiny, Mountains as thresholds between worlds and tests of character |
| Anne of Green Gables | Fantasy and children's | Red hair as source of shame and identity, Imagination versus reality, Puffed sleeves as marker of fashion and belonging |
| Black Beauty | Fantasy and children's | Kindness versus cruelty, Fashion and vanity harming animals, Separation and loss |
| Middlemarch | Literary | Intellectual hunger and the pursuit of knowledge, Marriage as a test of character and compatibility, Hidden secrets and the past returning to haunt the present |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Literary | Fallen nobility and false kinship, Tess's beauty and its danger, Concealment and confession |
| Mrs Dalloway | Literary | Time and mortality, Memory and the past, Authority and power |
| To the Lighthouse | Literary | The Lighthouse beam, Light and darkness, Beauty and its burden |
| Anna Karenina | Literary | The railway station and trains as places of fate and death, Dreams and omens, especially the peasant figure, Work and labour as sources of meaning and redemption |
| Crime and Punishment | Literary | Fever and delirium, The axe and blood, Poverty and sacrifice |
| Madame Bovary | Literary | Romantic literature and idealism, The blind beggar, Debt and financial entanglement |
| The Age of Innocence | Literary | Flowers and tokens of affection, Social convention and propriety, The gaze and observation |
| Silas Marner | Literary | Gold and material wealth versus human love, Secrets and their revelation, Isolation and community integration |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literary | Freedom versus constraint, Superstition and signs, Deception and disguise |
| Hamlet | Plays | Poison, Madness, Theatre and performance |
| Macbeth | Plays | Blood and guilt, Prophecy and ambiguity, Appearance and reality |
| Romeo and Juliet | Plays | Fate and stars, Light and darkness, Death and love |
| Othello | Plays | Deception and seeming, The handkerchief, Jealousy as poison |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Plays | Law and obedience, Magic and enchantment, Dreams and reality |
| Twelfth Night | Plays | Disguise and identity, Love's constancy and change, Mistaken identity |
| Doctor Faustus | Plays | Magic as power and deception, Time running out, Earthly pleasure versus damnation |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Plays | The name Ernest and its power, Double lives and deception, The hand-bag as the key to identity |
| A Doll's House | Plays | Childish deception and hiding, The letter in the box, Wild dancing and the Tarantella |
| Hedda Gabler | Plays | Pistols and power, Vine-leaves in hair, Manuscripts and creation |
| Pygmalion | Plays | Rain and shelter, Accent and class, Transformation through speech |
| The School for Scandal | Plays | Scandal and slander, Hypocrisy and false sentiment, Disguise and revelation |
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