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What are the writing styles of 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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What is the writing style in "A Rose for Emily"?
"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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What are a few rhetorical devices that William Faulkner uses in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech? Such devices as...
Faulkner, speaking in 1950, uses several examples of alliteration, or beginning words that are next to each other or near each other with the same sound. Examples are "ding dong of doom" and "he...
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Please provide an analysis of "After Fifty Years" by William Faulkner. What is the meaning or the theme of the poem?...
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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What are the themes in the poem "After Fifty Years" by William Faulkner? Please give an explanation and examples from...
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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In William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, what does he say young writers of the day have forgotten about...
Faulker says that the physical fear in the age of World War II has made young writers forget what being human is about: the older emotions and truths from a time when fear was not the only thing...
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How might one compare and contrast Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner?
The most apparent similarity between the two authors is that they wrote in what is called the "southern gothic" genre. These kinds of stories are set in the American South and usually deal with how...
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How is "A Rose for Emily" a story about the human heart in conflict with itself?
When Miss Emily's father died, she refused to accept the fact and insisted that he was still alive whenever anyone came to the house. It makes perfect sense to say that Miss Emily loved her father...
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How would you compare and contrast the writing styles of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway? (diction, sentence...
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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Is there a similarity in terms of theme between "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily"?
Perhaps the most obvious similarity between "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily" is the combination of fierce independence and madness of the two principle characters, Abner Snopes and Emily...
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What does William Faulkner mean when he says: "The best literature is about the old universal truths, such as love,...
Two of the most important benefits of literature are its abilities to show us people and places that we might never otherwise know and to show us circumstances and situations that might help us to...
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What message is William Faulker trying to relay to the young writers in his speech "On Receiving the Nobel Prize"?
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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In Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, how does he use repetition to emphasize his understanding of universal...
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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What are some of the literary devices used in the poem "After Fifty Years" by William Faulkner (besides similes,...
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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Identify a theme from Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
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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When the father tells his sons about joining the army, "Obey them, but remember your name and don't take nothing from...
"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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Why is William Faulkner's poem "After Fifty Years" a good poem? Why does it work? How does he use his sonnet to truly...
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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In Faulkner's short story "Shall Not Perish," why does Mother pick up the pistol?
In "Shall Not Perish," William Faulkner tells the story of how two families grieve after receiving word that their sons were killed in World War II. Mother's family takes one day to grieve because...
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How is the myth of "the Old South" shown in William Faulkner's stories A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning, and Dry...
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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What are main problems and characteristic features of Faulkner's works?
Celebrated American author William Faulkner was born in Mississippi and spent the early part of his life living in the south. In 1918, after dropping out of high school, he moved to Connecticut to...
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In "The Bear," what distinctions does Faulkner seem to draw between cowardice and true bravery?
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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What is William Faulkner trying to say in his Banquet Speech? Spoken at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in...
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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Were Faulkner's works socially acceptable in his time?
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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How would you write a literature review of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," concerning the narration style, including...
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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Did William Faulkner have iconoclastic views?
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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Considering the contributions of William Faulkner, and Erskine Caldwell, what are three key aspects/influences of the...
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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What is Faulkner's Nobel Prize winning literary work ?
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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In "The Bear," how does Faulkner distinguish between foolhardiness and bravery?
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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I want to know about American Realism and how is this period characterized?
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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What sort of person is William Faulkner? What kind of knowledge Does the storyteller have? Can he see into people's...
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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How does the title "A Rose for Emily" relate to the story?
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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Share your experience in reading "A Rose for Emily": did the foreshadowings give away the ending for you?
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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Are there similarities in the writing and themes of William Faulkner and John Dos Pasos?
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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Discuss ambivalence and modern literature through William Faulkner's themes and techniques.
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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Are the characters of Miss Emily in" A Rose for Emily" and Abner Snopes in "Barn Burning" similar?
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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In "Barn Burning", is there a way to read the story in which the reader can view Ab as an empathetic or a sympathetic...
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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I am looking for a short story by William Faulkner about a baby's race that is questioned by the father and the...
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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How do I start a 10-page research paper about the similarites between Willliam Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and...
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,...