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Essays 181 - 210
In three pages this essay compares O'Connor's 'Good Country People' with Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' in terms of their usage of ...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...
Ushers ultimate fall. "[The house had] an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from t...
In seven pages this paper examines the history of the Old South as it reveals intself in William Faulkner's short story. Four oth...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...
In five pages this paper examines decay and death in a thematic analysis of this famous short story by William Faulkner particular...
In five pages this paper examines the conflict between protagonist Emily Grierson and her hometown in an analysis of this short st...
was the case, but not in the manner which many would believe. I dont think there is any reason to believe that Emily was raging m...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...
This 5 page essay examines the character Nancy in the book by William Faulkner. 2 sources....
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...