Two Examples Of Grotesque In Faulkner's

Emily experienced isolation and insanity which ultimately lead her to her downfall. Faulkner uses grotesque imagery which showed the lengths she was willing to go to, so she wouldn’t feel empty. Emily represents southern life at large. She is controlled by male dominance which leads her to isolation and insanity. Faulkner’s vision of a family is sick and grotesque mainly because he took her life away from her. Using the genre grotesque and the theme of insanity and isolation help to portray what is going on in the story. Emily’s father was the only person she had in her life. Now that he passed away she has no one to turn to making her lonely. “She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers
This is very similar to Emily’s father, because he invaded her life, and basically took it away from her. In “lush rot” the locals would enjoy their time having fun and drinking tea under the kudzu when it would be sunny outside, but at the same time they would still fear it because of the grotesque aspects it has. Emily would always be with her father but deep down in her gut she always feared him because of his controlling authority. “It had already overtaken a football field length of land, descending down from a green tumor of a hill. Each year, it grew a little more, eating into the neighbors’ backyards.” Kudzu takes over anything in its path. In Emily’s case her father took away her life little by little until she was completely isolates, and
snoops has burned down the barn which caused him and his family to be on the run because the confederates are searching for the culprits who burned down the barn. Although he burned the barn for the safety of his family, he didn’t want them to freeze in the middle of the night. Hi burning the barn made him feel powerful because he felt authority. In reality snoops is lonely and used fire to his advantage to fill the emptiness he feels and wants to overcome, but he always felt the emptiness inside him the “fire” he used just made him feel powerful for a short time. This relates to a rose foe Emily because Emily was dating hommer for a while but he didn’t want to make the relationship serious which made Emily so upset .she decided to poison him with arsenic which was her only way of escaping loneness. Although she sleeps next to his decaying body she thinks that she is happy but the reality is that she is lonelier than ever. “And older still, he might have divined the true reason: that the element of fire spoke to some deep mainspring of his father’s being, as the element of steel or of powder spoke to other men, as the one weapon for the preservation of integrity, else breath were not worth the breathing, and hence to be regarded with respect and used with discretion.” Shmopp source of power was fire and Emily weakness was her fear of being alone. At the end both Emily and shmop go back to their starting point which