YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Past in Absalom Absalom by William Faulkner
Essays 91 - 120
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...
In nine pages this paper examines the necessary logical sequence that evolves in the tragedies of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms a...
In five pages the viewpoint's functions in these respective stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources liste...
In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...
(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...
there is an appearance of such. While Lomans life is all about lies and innuendo, Snopess emotions are simply lacking. He is just ...
The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...
In 5 pages this paper discusses the North and South oppositional relationship as depicted in these stories by Bierce and Faulkner....
In eleven pages the similarities and differences that exist among the male protagonists and their parentages in these works are co...
The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...
white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...
In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...
In 5 pages this paper examines the various narrative techniques these authors employ in a contrast and comparison of these novels ...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...
spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...
In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....
that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...
in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...
with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...