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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
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
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...
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Literature
Two writers, both products of the American South, both born in the latter part of the 19th Century and both died in the middle of the 20th Century. One, however, was white and raised in a solidly...
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A Rose for Emily
The first step in discussing Faulkner's use of figurative language is to define it, so, for our purposes we will consider figurative language to be the intentional departure from the literal,...
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A Rose for Emily
The old platitudinous warning issued by those who later plead criminal insanity to murder charges – “If I can’t have you, nobody can” – lies at the heart of William Faulkner’s short...
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A Rose for Emily
Although it is tempting to view Emily's murder of the Yankee, Homer Barron, as the South smiting the wicked North for its transgressions of the Civil War, there are several reasons for not yielding...
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A Rose for Emily
Your question includes a number of elements that cannot be answered by reference to the story, but I will try to answer those elements that Faulkner discusses. Miss Emily is identified in the story...
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A Rose for Emily
One of the first elements of foreshadowing occurs at the beginning of Section 2: So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the...
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A Rose for Emily
This is a good question. The protagonist in "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is Miss Emily Grierson, and she is unquestionably a product of her Old Southern upbringing. She does not deal with...
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A Rose for Emily
The narrator, which provides the point of view for "A Rose for Emily," is the town of Jefferson, a collective entity that seems to be able to recount Miss Emily's life over the span of decades....
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Absalom, Absalom!
Faulkner's title is an allusion to the biblical story in Samuel 2:13-18 in which Amnon, King David's oldest son, has incestuous relations (rape) with Tamar, his sister. Their brother, Absalom,...
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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
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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A Rose for Emily
The narrative voice in "A Rose for Emily" can be described as compassionate. Pride is clearly a part of Emily's story also. The pride of Emily's family begins with her father then continues with...
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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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The Sound and the Fury
Dilsey has become the embodiment of nurturing and caring in the Compson home. She has become the force of love and compassion that Mr. and Mrs. Compson could never be. It makes sense that...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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William Faulkner
The Nobel Prize for literature is given for a body of work, not a single work, however, the Pulitzer Prize for literature is given yearly for a single work. Faulkner won the Pulitzer late in his...
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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
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
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
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
In my mind, the overwhelming message Faulkner gives to young writers is to remain true in depicting the human predicament. The idea that within this condition is a notion of suffering and...
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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
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
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
cpeacock17, William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily” introduces the legend of Colonel Sartoris, war hero, mayor, and first citizen, whose fame and influence linger, though he does not appear as a...
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William Faulkner
I believe the name of the short story by William Faulkner is "That Evening Sun." Nine-year-old Quentin is the narrator of this story about Nancy. She has several affairs with white men and...
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William Faulkner
When Miss. Emily's father died, she refused to admit it. She was very unstable (emotionally) and wouldn't let the towns people dispose of his body. She was left all alone, without any money, and...
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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
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
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...