YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Female Characters in William Faulkners Light In August
Essays 241 - 270
In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...
In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...
distainfully resists him, declaring, "Away! I do condemn mine ears that have / So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable, / T...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...
times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...
sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...
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...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
or not he should warn the de Spains illustrate the strength of family loyalty or as Faulkner calls it "the old fierce pull of bloo...
Look at the odds she said. It is during the day or early evening; there is good lighting; people are sober, and there is a slim p...
to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...
This HBO cable series is critiqued in 5 pages with gender roles, humor, and female characterizations analyzed....
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...
Wives and Mothers by E.J. Errington and how the author analyzes Canada's female culture are examined in 5 pages....
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...
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...
sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...
path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....