In "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, the narrator shows us the life of a woman who has gone through so many hardships and how she tries to live her life ignoring all of her problems. The story is about a woman, Emily Grierson, who is trapped in her traditional ways while the outside world is changing all around her. Even after her father's death, she refuses to allow him to be buried and puts up a fight before surrendering his body to the town. It is evident that she has a hard time letting go of things and this is the main reason why she ends up murdering her love, Homer Barron. She senses that he is going to leave her and she does not want to be alone like she used to be after her father's death.
The story is not about a woman who selfishly kills her love, but about the real life story of a woman who has lived a dreadful life and why she has come to the decision to commit murder. The literary elements used by Faulkner help us get a better understanding of this story and provide a unique ending. He uses the literary elements setting, plot, symbolism, and the most important of all, point of view, effectively to help us not to look at Emily as a killer, but someone who we can feel sorrow for. .
The setting of the story is extremely important. One of the major conflicts of the story is how Emily is too traditional and does not want to change. The story takes place in the South during the rebuilding period. Everything seems to be changing around Emily but she is oblivious to it. We first get a glimpse of this in the beginning when the mayor at the time, Colonel Saratoris, remitted her of her taxes. Since she has trapped herself in her home, she has not noticed that things have changed in her town. A new mayor comes in charge and mails her a tax notice that she refuses to pay. She tells them to see Colonel Saratoris, who has been dead for ten years. From this we can see that there is something wrong with her and she has not been able to move on after her father's death.
The tones change throughout the story from sympathy to suspicion. ... Later she asks the druggist for some arsenic, and he explains that by law she has to say for what she intends to use it. ... By these actions she sees herself as over everyone else. ... Emily's father played a big role in Emily's life. ... Then he disappeared so everyone started feeling sorry for her again. ...
Almost everyone is familiar with his works. ... This is the reason why Miss Emily has a great fear of rejection and abandonment. ... Unlike today, these were times everybody knows everyone in town and neighborhood has a profound affect in each family. ... Although she is isolated from everyone, the town seems to be obsessed with her. ... In a way, readers can find sympathy for Miss Emily, as a faithful lover and a lonely spinster. ...
Humankind has enjoyed different types of narratives which make up a large part of the background from where modern story emerged. ... Emily Grierson was an important person to the town, everyone attended her funeral but no one really knew her since she had a dark and lonely life. ... "Lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps - an eyesore among eyesores" (Kennedy, 33); describing the house which has aged instead of modernizing with the improvement of the city which in some way is like Emily's physical and mental decline. ... The narrator...
Reed treat Jane with disgust but her children as well show Jane no sympathy or kindness. ... Heathcliff, the central figure in Wuthering Heights, has none of the redeeming qualities Jane has. ... He even strangles an innocent dog; he is vindictive, mean and desires revenge at the cost of everyone. ... In Wuthering Heights Catherine acts out on it and as a result everyone's lives are effected. ... Emily, contrastly, portrays a passionate love that is also destructive and hurts everyone involved. ...
He soon finds out that Sophie has six toes she is deviant. ... For instance, Aunt Harriet who came to get help from her sister Emily Strom. ... Now he says this child you were with has six toes. ... This shows how cruel Joseph is when dealing with deviants; Joseph does not show sympathy to anyone. ... Hiding your true identity because exposing yourself to everyone can get you killed. ...
Emily Bronte adapts the persona of the different narrators so she could build up a layered character which to a lot of thinking to get to the real Heathcliff. ... It is like he punishing everyone in his life and surroundings because of his hard life and his broken heart that Catherine damaged. ... Know he will feel even lower because she has come back posh and elegant where he has gone down hill. ... Heathcliff shows sympathy for the weak and the ill. ... He carries on as usual not expressing his feeling and his sympathy. ...
"I am her mother and I have the key" The mother knows that she has the "key" to her daughter Emily's mind, she just needs to express her feelings. ... Emily ended up winning first place. ... "I knew I would loose her sometime" The narrator showing that she has no sympathy for the death of her child... This shows that Chatos Father has no support for him. ... This relationship should have never happened in the first place and now everyone in the story is feeling the repercussions of Mr. and Mrs. ...
Rochester, and her sister Emily's Heathcliff assume strong influences of Byronic heroes. ... Heathcliff spends the majority of his existence caught up in a spiteful vengeance towards everyone around him. ... He has an intense aversion to sympathy and can't stand helping someone. ... He is a master of manipulating other people's feelings and he manages to maintain some semblance of sympathy in Isabella and Cathy. ... At the end of Jane Eyre, Rochester is humbled and has realized his hopes while still alive. ...
Romeo and Juliet - The Betrayal of the Adults to Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the adults betray Juliet becausethey are unable to understand her. Juliet's parents, Capulet and LadyCapulet, fail to understands Juliet's decision not to marry Paris. TheNurse fails Juliet by not supporting Juliet's decision to remain married toRomeo. The final adult to fail Juliet is Friar Lawrence who does notcomprehend Juliet and Romeo's love for each other. These misunderstandingscause the adults to betray Juliet. ...
