YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :William Faulkners Writings and Fire Symbolism
Essays 211 - 240
- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...
In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...
also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
means than prose, being as diverse a means of communication as any medium. Identifying the inherent problems associated with comp...
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
burned in addition to the health havoc it wreaked on the population of South East Asia (Linden, 1998). At the height of the fires,...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...
sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...
overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
need to consider the causes and how to deal with these potential events. There are three basic types of explosion, the first ids...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...
twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...