The central meaning of both poems is death should not be feared for there is eternal life after this life. Dickinson chooses to personify death and compare it to how great eternity is to reveal the theme. Donne personifies death to lower it down and show that death has no power. Analyzing the two poems by each stanza or line enables readers to more clearly understand the message the poet is giving. In Dickinson’s poem the first stanza compares dying to taking a carriage ride with a suitor.
William Faulkner explores Emily Grierson’s life by starting and ending with her death. Instead of telling her story chronologically he tells important tidbits in by breaking up the story into five parts, each one set at a different time in her life. The plot of “A Rose for Emily” focuses heavily on death and loss. Each of the five parts bears some mention of Emily’s loss and this constant reiteration helps the reader to feel some of Emily’s grief. First she loses her father, his death is mentioned throughout the story, then she loses the support of the town, eventually she loses her love and finally she loses her life.
In the passage it embodies that Meursault is detached from society and is different from other people. He does not show any sadness over his mother being dead. This is later seen when he is at the vigil and he does not open the casket to see his mother one last time, which in that time period was perceived as something only a cold, heartless monster would do Later in the novel he shows no remorse over killing the Arab just like he showed no remorse over his mother. During the trial the fact that that Meursault was different from the rest of society is used, something that was evident to the reader since the beginning of the book. He is found guilty not because he killed an Arab but because he was seen as a monster for being so apathetic and going out with a girl after his mother died.
The Gaitas each faced their own fears of unable to belong, but none so as much as Christina who dies to the loneliness of been unable to fit in. “He found her just staring into the fire” describes Raymond, illustrating how desperate his mother had been. As a result she is characterized as ‘appearing to be cheerful and vivacious’ but in truth ‘deeply depressed.’ Christina is an allusion of the displaced socialite hungry for a sense of fulfillment and security, in a place where she cannot get the acceptance she seeks; she wants to ‘fall asleep and die”. She feels geographically and culturally displaced, as a result she never settles into Frogmore. Raymond uses a series of fragmented repetitions to convey the alienation felt by Christina.
She also expresses anger in her speech, which again reveals how frustrating a loss can be. I was especially moved when she says “silence the pianos and with the muffled drum bring out the coffin, let the mourners come” (3-4). This removal of music symbolises her extreme need for isolation. She doesn’t feel any positivity and has given up hope of emotional aid. Although people are reaching out to her she knows they don’t understand her situation.
But at the end of the day I feel sorry for her and I tend to understand why she feels the way she dose! You can’t blame the girl, for feeling depressed, she lives on a ranch where she is the only girl, her husband sees her as an object that he owns and she has no one to turn or talk to. In the book most of the characters have a negative view of her and tend to see her as trouble, but when you think about it she has the potential to get them in a lot of trouble, and she does, she cause Curley to have a broken hand and she gets Lennie in trouble for killing her, Every time, she is present in the book, she is never in a positive mood, she is always sulking or looking for Curley, I don`t actually think that there is one time in the book were she seems happy and it is when she is flirting , and even then she just gets negative reactions back! To summaries , overall i think that she is a very negative person, who has no hope of
Another piece of evidence ,to suggest that Curly,s wife is lonely is that she had no name ! She was unhappy with her married life because she told Lennie that she don't like Curly( her husband).
In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” skewed public perception for the Grierson family and both unintentional and intentional lack of public interaction force Miss Emily Grierson to live and die in a world isolated from the rest of her society. In “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily is immediately objectified by the narrator of the story, who is speaking from the town of Jefferson’s point of view. The narrator describes the male funeral callers of the town as paying respect “for a fallen monument” (Faulkner 548). This statement not only objectifies Miss Emily, but it also shows how she is viewed in the public eye: as a destructed stone landmark rather than an emotive human being. A few paragraphs later, she is objectified again; this time Faulkner refers to her as being, “a tradition, a duty, a care; as sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (Faulkner 549).
This hurt that arises within people is characterized by the feeling of unhappiness. This idea is shown in Ann Beattie her short stories “Janus” and “The Burning House” where characters live in concealment in their everyday lives. Beattie believes that living a personal and public life of secrecy will generate unhappiness. This causes characters within Beattie’s stories to find themselves unsatisfied with their lives and their marriages. No character within Beattie’s novels have found marriage the answer to their happiness, and so “secret liaisons abound in Beattie’s fiction supporting characters with intimacy they cannot find in their more public marriages or cohabitations” (Cannon).People are so desperate to be happy in life , they seek other methods to find happiness; they have affairs and live in secret, but in the end they are only left with unhappiness.
Furthermore, Leonce “thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation” (Chopin 6). The contrast between Edna and the other women in the novel stood out in this quote because the women at the time adored their husbands and paid their utmost attention to them. As for Edna, she would have rather been sleeping and did not care much as to what Leonce had to say or to the outcome of his events at night. The tone of this quote gives off a melancholy and disappointed feeling due to Edna’s lack and interest in her husband’s stories. Chopin employs the literary techniques of diction and tone in order to allow Edna to appear different from other women during the late 1800s time