A Rose for Emily The Use of Color In A Rose for Emily, one of William Faulkner’s works, tells a story of Miss Emily in a small town of southern America. She was a daugther of a super strict and controlling father who kept her in solitude until her death. Miss Emily was always thought of as a weird and mysterious person to her neighbors, but the neighbors confirmed their theories of Miss Emily when they found out that she had killed her lover, Homer Barron and slept with his body for forty years in the upstairs of her house. Faulkner uses complex plots and a mixed-up time sequence to approach a despairing and gloomy image of Miss Emily to the reader. However, Faulkner uses colors to represent certain moods and mental conditions of Miss Emily during the story The color black has appeared twice in the whole story, one is in the first description of Emily’s appearance, is when the officials went to her house to discuss the tax issue.
Comparing and Contrasting “The Story of the Hour” to “The Tell Tale Heart” How would you feel if you are trapped somewhere? In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Mrs. Mallard is a wife who is trapped in an unfulfilling marriage and even diagnosed with a weak heart. She is the type of woman who wants to feel liberated in her own life. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is a madman and murderer who fails to conceal his fear after he kills an old man. Although they both have many similarities, surprisingly there are many differences between these two stories.
The Creole society of that time did not take affairs lightly. It was possible that they would be looked down upon for the rest of their lives or even disowned from their families. He is also surprised and somewhat threatened by her newfound independence. When Edna gets home from Madame Adele’s house, she finds a note from Robert saying that he loves her deeply but their relationship cannot be. Edna stays awake literally and figuratively; the awakening Robert has begun in her consumes her as she comes to some harsh realizations.
Final Draft The justification of murder and the “reason” for it In “Grendel” and “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner and Gardner are trying to portray Emily’s and Grendel’s feelings by articulating them through murders they committed during the course of each works. Both characters committed these murders that were triggered by some similar and a few differentiable motives. The author from each of the works show Grendel and Emily to be very strange and lonely characters, Grendel is portrayed as an ugly terrifying monster and Emily is shown as a strange single woman in her 30’s who likes her privacy and is very ungenerous. These are few of the reason why people in each of the works started separating themselves from Grendel and Emily. I think the murders
She grew up very close to her father, but didn’t have too much of a relationship with her mother. Her mother favored Maudie more than Peyton. As stated by Hadaller “Helen ostensibly devotes herself to Maudie, but at the expense of her marriage and in so doing she takes on a martyr complex, becoming self-righteously indignant that she is not recognized in her role as a devoted and caring mother.”(Hadaller29) Helen often acted jealous of her. “Helen Loftis has been seen by various critics as a woman filled with “insane jealousy” that leads to her acts of “great cruelty” toward her family and as a mother who wears a “hypocritical mask” of love and understanding when in reality she feels naught but jealousy and hostility.” (Hadaller35) The parents’ preferences put a strain on Peyton. It was hard for her to receive so much attention from her father, but have her mother abandon her emotionally.
I get the feeling that she was sick from before because of the fact that she killed her husband and went into hiding. I also sympathize with her because if my husband or any family member was brain dead I kind-of would’ve wanted to end their suffering too but at least stick around to do the time after, instead of running away like you planned it. Maybe while her husband was “dead” she snapped and just couldn’t take it anymore, standing around waiting for your loved one to die is just horrible, and maybe during that timing she just had a break down physiologically, and emotionally.
Macbeth seeing Banquos ghost is not his fear but his guilt over killing his best friend. With Lady Macbeths’ case she makes the crucial mistake of worrying about the future ultimately this causes her to go insane because she keeps thinking that she will be caught. However that is not the reason for her insanity, she was consumed by the guilt of forcing Macbeth to kill Duncan, she could no longer live with herself so she committed suicide to put an end to her misery. In modern society both of the misfortunes of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth can happen to anyone, why do human beings do anything to become successful even if it requires them to push others under the bus. Guilt is the number one reason for depression in America and the second highest reason that causes people to commit suicide in todays society.
Steven Jimenez English Ms. Torres 31, October, 2014 The Scarlett Letter Many people throughout their lives have been in the position of being looked down on by a group of people or society because of something they have done wrong, but overcomes their wrong doings at the end. In the novel “The Scarlett Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the protagonist Hester Prynne has this perpetual fight with proving to the puritan society that she is more than the letter “A” that is attached to her bosom. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows in his novel that people sometimes should receive a second chance. Being in a conflict with a group of people can be extremely stressful and overwhelming but people need to be their own support system and backbone to overcome such a difficult problem in order to move on with their lives. People often when being in a conflict with their society, usually back down because it is on person against a large amount of people but sometimes that is not the case.
Macbeth now kills without thinking or lifting a hair on his arm. This is clear in Act 4 scene 2 when Macbeth sends for the murder of Lady Macduff and her son. This marks the moment of Macbeth’s utter madness, he no longer is killing for political gain or to get rid of an enemy, but simply out of the desire to do harm and evil. However, Lady Macbeth’s guilt drives her to utter madness in a different direction. She now sleepwalks and always has a delusional belief that she has blood on her hands.
He explains that while the actual event of his mother's second marriage isn't necessarily the direct cause of Hamlet's madness, "it must be because the news has awakened into activity some slumbering memory, which is so painful that it may not become conscious" (Jones 93). Basically, Hamlet feels as if he has been fighting for his Mother's love all his life, then, when he sees how quickly and without thought she gives it away, he is, in one sense, heartbroken. Of course, all this is on a subconscious level as if to merely prompt hatred and crazed emotions without Hamlet realizing what they come