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In thirteen pages this paper discusses the fire symbolism featured in William Faulkner's Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, ...

success is also her own. Jacks mother dotes on him, and in turn, she becomes the center of his universe. However, Jacks mother a...

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

In five pages family dysfunction and its disintegration as represented in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and t...

In five pages this paper examines the impact of Addie's death at the beginning of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying to present the...

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...

spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

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...

South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...

story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...