"The Birth Mark" and "A Rose For Emily"

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A paper which analyzes two stories, "The Birth Mark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a dedicated scientist who marries a beautiful woman who has a physical defect, and his fanatical desire to remove this flaw, and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, a story sometimes regarded as symbolic of the changes in the South during the representative period.

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"Thus, throughout the story, the author has painted verbally the portraits of a tragic woman, Emily, which through his images; one observes her transformation from a virginal victim to a manly murderess to a corpulent dead body. Faulkner, however, also expose the interior density through external appearance, using both imagery and structure by putting together along with dispersed image and information throughout the story to amalgamate and interpret the diverse shades of Emily's character.

Furthermore, at the end of the story, the author contrasts the pictorialization of a kind Emily resting peacefully on her funeral with a plain image of love and loss, a strand of iron-gray hair resting on the yellowed pillow of an weak and powerless bridal bed. This haunting image is the final pen stroke murmuring the tribute of her tired and worn out."

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