YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Fathers and Sons in the Works of Arthur Miller and William Faulkner
Essays 511 - 540
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...
finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
have adopted something of a double standard. They have expected her to behave in the modest and subservient way which is usual for...
is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....
of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...
This sentiment is further echoed in London, in which Blake contends that all people have their own sadness and anguish inside, and...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
growth stages, with a new way of satisfying customer demands. The main strength here has to be seen as the technical knowledge tha...
sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...
about prejudice first hand, and when a teacher separated the white and black children, he would go with the white. She corrected h...
In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...
the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...
rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...
that his old manager would have given him a promotion. Now, in all honesty, we do not know that Frank would have promoted Willy at...
now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...
is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
of nuns drawn from farms in the Flemish countryside near Antwerp" (Close, 1995, p.6). One gets a sense of not only the setting, bu...
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
there seems to be an appeal to false authority. The fact that officials in the town deem someone a witch, and that they determine ...
and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...
tension in the play, which is by changing historical detail to create greater dramatic tension. The historical Abigail Williams, w...