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    Depression in the 1800s

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    Dealing with Depression in the 1800’s William Faulkner and Charlotte Gilman are two well known writers for intriguing novels of the 1800’s. Their two eccentric pieces‚ “A Rose for Emily” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” are equally alluring. These authors and their works have been well recognized‚ but also critized. The criticism focuses on the society that is portrayed in these novels. The modern readers of today’s society are resentful to this dramatic society. These two novels are full of tradition

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    Toni Morrison and William Faulkner are two of America’s most successful writers who seem to share many similar themes and motifs‚ Especially between Morrison’s Beloved and Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Both of these novels use multiple narrators‚ present their characters with struggles of their own identity‚ and show the difficulties of the people born into the lowest social class. As I Lay Dying is structured in such a way that the author has removed himself from the story. Basically‚ he allows

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    Emily” In the literature piece of “A Rose for Emily” it’s clear that change is essential in a person’s life. Emily is an example of this based on how she stays in the past throughout the story. She remains the same since her pre-civil war self and Faulkner would agree that the past should stay in the past. The narrator is spoken in third person and he is seen as ghostly since his identity is unknown‚ from context clues you can assume it’s someone in the town “But the voice of the town is the most ghostlike:

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    The traditional South‚ it was something that Faulkner could not help but to put into his crazy and chaotic book. In The Sound and The Fury‚ William Faulkner involves the decline of the South through some tragic and humorous characters and events. From the chaos of Benjy’s mind to the obsessive mind of Quentin and even the money driven and arrogant mind of Jason‚ Faulkner shows us how the Compson family represents the decline of the South. Falkner‚ having lived through the early 1900’s and even through

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    back together‚ is only one way to approach and participate in the work of literature; but it is not the only way. Once students grasp this truth‚ literature becomes dynamic‚ alive and ‘available”. In the short story‚ “A Rose for Emily”‚ writer William Faulkner uses plot‚ character and setting to demonstrate Emily’s refusal to transition into the “New South”. “A Rose for Emily”‚ takes place in southern United States and starts off when she dies in the early 20th century and goes back to her life

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    think.” Anonymous 3- “Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.” Pablo Picasso 4- “The best literature is about old universal truths‚ such as love‚ honor‚ pride‚ compassion and sacrifice.” William Faulkner 5- “Dreams not bases on realistic expectations become grand illusions” Anonymous 6- “Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through.” Alex Solzhenitsyn 7- “The right

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    1120 CC February 29th 2012 Barn Burning: The Right Way vs. The Wrong Father William Faulkner’s commitment to depicting “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself” (245) find perfect expression in “Barn Burning‚” in which Sarty is torn between his growing realization of his father’s depravity and his innate conviction that there is another‚ better way of being in the world. The way in which Faulkner has Sarty’s language used towards his father transitions throughout the story and

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    A Rose for Emily

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    Collin Brandl AP English Professor Hertzog 2/26/13 A key trait to southern gothic fiction is that it often contains a character that is in a state of helpless isolation from the people around them. In the short story “A Rose for Emily”‚ William Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily Grierson with sexual repression and a psychological state that keeps her mind in the time before the Civil War. This characterization stems from her father‚ her boyfriend Homer Baron and the town of Jefferson itself‚

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    element of moderanism

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    gender and racial roles‚ notable in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great Gatsby‚" for example. They also destroy conventional forms of language by deliberately breaking rules of syntax and structure. William Faulkner’s novel "The Sound and the Fury‚" for instance‚ boldly rejects the rules of language‚ as Faulkner invents new words and adopts a first-person narrative method‚ interior monologue. Fragmentation Related to the theme of destruction is the theme of fragmentation. Fragmentation in modernist literature

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    Violence and Barn Burning

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    Martin Luther King Jr. once said‚ “Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to hit a man‚ but you refuse to hate him”. William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning” illustrates this point. The main character in the story Sarty is faced with the choice of staying loyal to his family or straying away from his family and following his beliefs. Growing up in an environment where violence is present causes one to struggle

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