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William Faulkner
American Realism is characterized by a focus on real life situations, people, dilemmas, and problems. It was a rejection of Romanticism, as well. Realism frequently dealt with moral and social...
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William Faulkner
There is, indeed, a similarity in theme and style in William Faulkner's short stories "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily". The basic similarity is that both stories explore the extent to which...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor were two of the preeminent Southern writers of the twentieth century. O’Connor felt enormous respect for Faulkner, her predecessor. The two writers have much...
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William Faulkner
Faulkner's poem "After Fifty Years" focuses on the relationship between aging and loss of love. Faulkner emphasizes the passage of time through the tense shifts that happen after the fourth and...
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William Faulkner
I believe that this question is asking whether or not a reader can empathize and/or sympathize with Abner Snopes. I do not think the question is asking whether or not Abner himself is an empathetic...
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William Faulkner
The poem "After Fifty Years" by William Faulkner tells the story of an old woman who is alone after growing old. After fifty years of living with others, the woman in the poem finds herself utterly...
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William Faulkner
In the poem, William Faulkner uses the sonnet form of two stanzas, the first with eight lines and the second with six lines. He also uses regular rhyme schemes: ABBA, BCCB, DEDEED. The poem uses a...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner’s poem discusses the relationship between aging and love. Devotion or loyalty is a closely related theme, as the fifty years of the title probably refer to a relationship, such as...
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William Faulkner
One theme that comes out of Faulkner's acceptance speech has to do with the human predicament. Faulkner drives home the point that the critical element that humans possess to address an insecure...
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William Faulkner
"Shall Not Perish" was William Faulkner's sequel to "Two Soldiers," which detailed a young boy's love for his brother who enlists to fight in World War II. In "Shall," the family receives word that...
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William Faulkner
When Faulkner presented his speech in 1950, much of the civilized world was involved in the Cold War, and all were living in a nuclear world. Children regularly participated in bomb/air raid drills...
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William Faulkner
"The Tall Men" is a short story that Faulkner wrote to try to promote the ideas of patriotism and of the importance of rugged individualism. It is in this context that we should understand the...
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William Faulkner
"A Rose for Emily" is a short story by William Faulkner. It is narrated by a third person narrator who is not named and is assumed to speak as the voice of the Mississippi town in which the story...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner is best known for his experiments with the stream-of-consciousness narrative style. This style is characterized by a use of language that mimics thought, often eliminating...
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William Faulkner
They are both American novelists of the 20th century, but their approaches to story-telling vary in two important ways: the use of narrator and the complexity of sentence structure. Faulkner...
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William Faulkner
Part I of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" finds the townspeople alluding to Emily as "a tradition, a duty, and a ...sort of hereditary obligation upon the town." Truly, Emily's heart has been...
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William Faulkner
When he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, William Faulkner, controversial, earthy, but always intrinsically truthful, was acknowledged by the literary world. His acceptance speech...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, just four years after the end of World War II, when the Atomic Age was in full swing and the Cold War was a deep red sunrise on the...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner used this phrase as part of his Nobel Prize of Literature speech banquet in 1949. What he means by this quote is that the best expressions in written language are often the most...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner came from an old Southern family. He was born in Mississippi in 1897. He heard stories from his grandfather about the old South. His novels and stories share a common element;he...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner gave his Nobel prize acceptance speech in December 10, 1950. This period was only a few years after World War II had ended. On Faulkner's mind were the devastating bombing of...
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William Faulkner
Each of William Faulkner’s short stories – A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, and Dry September – reflect the author’s Southern roots and the culture in which he lived his life. Whether it’s...
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William Faulkner
How would you write a literature review of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," concerning the narration style, including the use of "we" and stream of consciousness, the story's symbolism (rose, dust, house, hair, the stationary, lime, arsenic), and...
William Faulkner is a renowned author known for many of his abnormalities, both in his style of writing, as well as in his personal life. He was an author who had a strong grasp of the intricacies...
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William Faulkner
The original question had to be edited down a bit. I think that Faulkner uses repetition throughout his Nobel Prize speech to emphasize his understanding of universal truths by suggesting that...
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William Faulkner
I really was not expecting the ending, though I started to become suspicious when Emily purchases the arsenic and refuses to say what it was for. Although people in the town think that she is going...
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William Faulkner
In "The Bear" Faulkner delineates the line that divides the antithetical traits of bravery and cowardice. Bravery he associates with being scared while cowardice he associates with being afraid....
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William Faulkner
This is a huge question that I can't begin to do justice to here, but I can give you a place to start. Faulkner's heroes/protagonists are often unlikeable, even despicable characters, but he...
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William Faulkner
One of the reasons it took so long for the world to recognize William Faulkner's greatness was his seemingly perverse views of just about everything that everybody else had already accepted. Here...
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William Faulkner
The story that you are looking for is "Desiree's Baby," by author Kate Chopin whose main character's background and racial heritage is not known. "Désirée is the adopted daughter of the Valmonde...
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William Faulkner
In "The Bear," Faulkner makes a distinction between foolhardiness and bravery that relates to comprehension, reasonableness and wisdom. In Part II, the narrator is talking about the protagonist's...
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William Faulkner
Yes. Many of the character in Faulkner's work are related to each other and some characters appear in several stories. Many of Faulkner's stories are set in a fictional area that Faulkner invented....
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William Faulkner
The first step in doing a comparison and contrast paper is to isolate the features of the two stories you wish to compare. Both stories are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi,...
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William Faulkner
Emily is seen as a spinster in this story - an unmarried woman who is probably never going to get married. She does have an affair with one man that the town knows about. This is the affair with...
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William Faulkner
I think that the similarities between Dos Passos and Faulkner are subtle. It will be difficult to forge an immediate connection between both writers, but there are some similar elements and themes...
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William Faulkner
Southern Gothic literature follows many of the tenets of Gothic literature, but vary in some ways. Here are three: 1. Incidents are firmly planted in Realism. While traditional Gothic literature...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner's works tended to be critically well-received through his entire career, although they were not initially financially successful. Although Faulkner's frank discussions of racial...
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William Faulkner
The nature of the question is quite broad, so I will try to offer up something even though it might not be exactly what you need. Faulkner is probably one of the most gifted storytellers. Using...
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Alfred Nobel stated in 1895 that the Nobel Prize shall be given to the person who shall have produced in the field of...
