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The Importance of Honor
Book Review # 92001
The Importance of Honor
An analysis of the importance of honor in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner.
1,631 words (approx. 6.5 pages) |
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MLA | 2007
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This paper examines the importance of honor over the importance of life over death in three American short stories. The paper discusses "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe and "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. The paper explores, using examples from each of these stories, how and why their central characters value honor more than they value life over death, and how this affects their attitudes and actions.From the Paper:
"After Emily dies and they open her house, where no one has set foot for 40 years, they find the remains of Homer Barron, and the toiletries she purchased for him long ago. "The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace" and "then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head" "we say a long strand of iron-gray-hair (p. 36)." Emily has been sleeping with Homer's corpse. Apparently, to Emily, it was better to have Homer's dead body with her all this time than no Homer at all. Perhaps she could not have faced the rejection that would have felt if Homer had managed to leave her, so she kills him instead. Thus Emily, iron-willed and honor-bound as ever, "claims" what she feels is rightfully hers - Homer - right up until the moment of her own death."Sample of Sources Used:
- Bierce, Ambrose. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" full online text]. Works by Bierce Online. Retrieved April 17, 2006, from: <http://www.donswaim.com /bierce.resources.html>.
- Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 4th Compact Ed. New York, Longman, 2005. 29-36.
- Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Cask of Amontillado" [full online text]. Literature.org. May 23, 2005. Retrieved April 17, 2006, from: <http://www.literature.org /authors/poe-edgar-allan/amontillado.html>.
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