"It's lonely at the top," a cliche that Faulkner reaffirms in his classical short story, "A Rose for Emily." In this southern tale, a social class structure separated the "high and mighty Griersons" from the rest of the town. After the Civil War, the southern upper class society was dwindling with the northern industrialists rising in national influence. Emily Grierson was the product of an overprotective single father raising a high society child. During this era the southern high society type was considered a dying breed. Emily's father instilled values and morals that only an arrogant aristocrat could set in a child. Emily's inability to involve herself in social settings, her blatant disregard of the law, and her radical approach to intimate relationships all stem from her father's upbringing.
The town was filled with people Emily had no desire to interact with. She kept herself locked inside her house and sent Tobe, her servant, to take care of mostly all obligations that required social interactions. She spent the greater part of her life inside this fortress of solitude she considered home. During Emily's years as a young lady, she was led to believe none of the young men deserved her. The young men did not measure up to her father's expectations so he dismissed them. Even at thirty years of age, Emily remained single because her father would limit her social interaction. So it was common for the townspeople to refrain from associating with such distinguished people. The entire town attended Emily Grierson's funeral without knowing her beyond her name. This type o f upbringing left Emily isolated.
Emily held an "above-the-law" attitude that was common amongst aristocrats in the southern states at that time. Once Emily's father died, the mayor felt obligated to allow Emily to refrain from paying taxes. When Emily visited her druggist for arsenic, he allowed her to purchase the poison without having to give reason for its use even though the law states that you must.
Requiem for an Aristocrat "It's lonely at the top," a cliche that Faulkner reaffirms in his classical short story, "A Rose for Emily." ... Emily's father instilled values and morals that only an arrogant aristocrat could set in a child. ... Emily held an "above-the-law" attitude that was common amongst aristocrats in the southern states at that time. ...
Requiem for an Aristocrat "It's lonely at the top," a cliche that Faulkner reaffirms in his classical short story, "A Rose for Emily." ... Emily's father instilled values and morals that only an arrogant aristocrat could set in a child. ... Emily held an "above-the-law" attitude that was common amongst aristocrats in the southern states at that time. ...
His father put him on tour, where he played for a numerous amount of aristocrats. ... As Mozart was writing a comic opera, Die Zauberflote, a stranger who gave him a letter commending him to write a requiem approached him. Mozart started to get sick, so he continued writing the requiem in his deathbed, though he had died before the requiem was finished, in1791. ...
Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. Early Life Central Europe in the mid-18th century was going through a period of transition. The remnants of the Holy Roman Empire had divided into small semi-self-governing principaliti...