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William Faulkner, 2002.
An examination of the literary style of the author William Faulkner.
1,474 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper discusses how the author William Faulkner (1897-1962) was obsessed with the dark side of human mind and in his in-depth psychological exploration of such areas, he would produce stories that were often violent and negative. It looks at how Faulkner believed in shocking his readers and taking them by complete surprise and how most of his works have a sinister air about them as if the author is foreshadowing a really dark and appalling ending. It studies three different pieces of writing by William Faulkner and comments on the writer?s style and explains the use of common themes and devices. The three works are "A Rose for Emily", "Barn Burning" and "The Bear".
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"Faulkner has been associated with thrilling mysteries where he would bring out something evil in the characters. His fascination with the darker side of human mind is evident from his works including his most famous short story, A Rose for Emily. Here Emily stood for twisted human psyche, which leads to bizarre happenings. The author?s style is mysterious as if he is trying to hide something all the time, only to take his readers by complete surprise in the end. Faulkner would often keep his work deceptively simple just to maximize the impact of the last twist in the plot. This is exactly what happens in A Rose for Emily where Emily is shown as a simple mysterious woman who didn?t like intrusion or interference in her life. However her unusual existence is quite intriguing and give birth to various stories about her."
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William Faulkner, 2006.
This paper examines various works of literature by acclaimed author and poet William Faulkner while also focusing on the novelist's personal life and experiences which greatly contributed to his writing.
1,323 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper delves into the personal life of author William Faulkner from his birth in 1897 in Mississippi and up to his acceptance of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950. The writer of this paper contends and explains that despite Faulkner's generally pessimistic view of human nature which was clearly evident in his writings, the author in fact was positive and hopeful about the future of mankind. This paper discusses various works of poetry and literature by Faulkner while focusing on the plot and main characters in "Barn Burning" a short story about a boy and his troubled relationship with his angry, abusive and mentally ill father. This paper discusses the author's inspirations for both characters and stories which were often taken from personal events in Faulkner's life.
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"Faulkner studied literature for three semesters at University of Mississippi. During that time his first published poem appeared in The New Republic. He published poems and short stories in The Mississippian, the campus newspaper. He helped to form a drama club on campus and wrote a one-act play. Even after he left school he continued sending poems and prose pieces to The Mississippian. In 1921 he got a job in New York City at a bookstore where Elizabeth Prall, who later married the writer Sherwood Anderson, was manager. He returned home and from 1922 to 1924 was postmaster at University of Mississippi, but he wasn't cut out for the job. He read too much and played cards with his friends, misplaced and lost the mail, and did not serve the customers."
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The Works of William Faulkner, 2007.
This paper discusses several works by William Faulkner.
1,352 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes several works by William Faulkner. Specifically, it contains an analysis relating the author's life experiences to the writing he produced. The author believes that Faulkner's literary yet readable work endures because it captures the life and times of Southerners, resounding with their language, lifestyles, and customs. Additionally, the paper emphasizes Faulkner's use of setting as a powerful literary device.
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"Faulkner's style is literary, even when he writes of poor white Southerners. For example, in "Barn Burning," Sarty once thinks to himself, "Maybe it will all add up and vanish-corn, rug, fire; the terror and grief, the being pulled two ways like between two teams of horses-gone, done with for ever and ever" ("Faulkner 17). Faulkner's writing is complex and yet it gives a feeling of what the character is thinking and feeling in quite logical and simple terms. He also very effectively uses dialogue and dialect to indicate the characters locale, education, and even temperament. His style can be both "down home" and informal, and then learned and even sometimes cynical. In "Barn Burning" and many other works, Faulkner uses the colorful dialogue of the poor southerner to represent the family's sharecropper class. For example, throughout the story they never say "it," but always use "hit" instead. Because he understands the South so well, he can introduce the intricacies of the South to his readers quite effectively, which makes the reader feel as if they have been transported to a new place and time."
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William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, 2004.
Examines the influence of author William Faulkner on the African-American writer, Toni Morrison.
600 words (approx. 2.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 21.95
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Writers are often influenced by their predecessors, and Toni Morrison is no different. The type of work first immortalized by William Faulkner is clearly evident in her novels, and she not only uses some of the same techniques, but takes them to new levels. This paper shows that both Faulkner and Morrison write in a complex dialect and stylized manner that can be difficult to decipher on a superficial level. Both writers cover similar subject matter in their novels: complex familial relationships, including incest. The paper also shows that Faulkner and Morrison both frequently address issues of race and identity in post-slavery America.
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"Black characters populate the novels of both Faulkner and Morrison, and they speak in the natural rhythms of their dialect. In Go Down, Moses, the use of dialect is apparent when a black man speaks: ??Ha,? Tomey?s Turl said. ?And nem you mind that neither. I got protection now. All I needs to do is to keep Old Buck from ketching me unto I gets the word?? (Moses 12). This use of dialect is also seen in Morrison?s novels, including The Bluest Eye: ??Dillinger wouldn?t have come near you lessen he was going hunting in Africa and shoot you for a hippo?? (Bluest 54). For both novelists, the use of dialect helps create the reality of being black."
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William Faulkner and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2003.
A comparative analysis of the characters of Miss Emily from "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and the female narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper".
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper compares Miss Emily from William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily" and the female narrator of Charlotte Perkins Gilman story, "The Yellow Wallpaper". It also looks at the impact of a male dominated culture on both women.
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" A comparison and contrast of Faulkner's Miss Emily and the narrator in Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" reveals the often negative and diminishing impact on women of living in a male dominated..."
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William Faulkner, 2002.
A review of one of William Faulkner's short stories, "Barn Burning".
1,017 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses the use of opposition and tension to illustrate the major themes of "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner. The paper describes how these oppositions help to create the tension and mood in the story, and serve as a literary device to illustrate the author's themes of the initiation of the adolescent into adult life, and the triumph of the personal conscience over family loyalty.
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"Sarty?s blood tie to his father versus the pull of moral imperative to society in general is likely the major opposition within ?Barn Burning?. As the story begins, Sartoris Snopes is in court, hoping that he does not have to testify in the arson case against his father, Mr. Snopes. Sarty knows that his father is guilty, but is willing to lie in court because he feels that his blood tie, to his father, or the ?pull of blood? outweighs any moral imperative or decent behaviour to society. Sarty thinks that Mr. Harris is "his father's enemy (our enemy he thought in that despair, ourn, mine and hisn both! He's my father!)". Ultimately, Sarty must warn Mr. de Spain of his father?s plans to burn down the plantation, as he cannot stop his father?s actions. In this warning, the moral imperative to society wins out over the blood ties to his father, and Sarty has passed through a difficult and painful initiation into adult life."
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William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", 2005.
A paper about family values in relation to William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying."
853 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper outlines the ineffectual management of a family and impossibility of a stable, nuclear family while lacking bonds necessary for good relations such as love, loyalty and trust. The model family used to prove the thesis is the Bundren family from William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying."
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"There are several intangible bonds that hold a family together. These bonds - which range from loyalty to love - act as the glue that solidifies and maintains the complex structure of the people and emotions that partake in a family. In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, the Bundren Family lacks several of these essential ties. The mother does not love her children, the husband is selfish, the daughter is secretive, and the sons each have their own ulterior motives. Such characteristics make the existence of a functional family nearly impossible. As demonstrated in As I Lay Dying, upholding a cohesive household demands love, altruism, and honesty, without which a family cannot be properly maintained."
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William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury", 2006.
A look at how William Faulkner uses the opening scene in "The Sound and the Fury" to teach his readers how to read the novel.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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This essay shows how the opening scene in William Faulkner's novel, "The Sound and the Fury", teaches the reader how to read the rest of the book by introducing the reader to the difficulties in narration and time that the story will present.
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"Throughout his writing career, William Faulkner always attempted to push the boundaries of literature. From creating his vast population and setting of southern characters to facing many tough southern topics such as racism and Reconstruction to stretching what was considered accessible and acceptable writing, Faulkner proved himself a true revolutionary and visionary. Perhaps his greatest feat, though, was teaching his reader how to read his work, and any other. One of the best examples of Faulkner teaching his reader how to read and how to experience a text is his masterwork, "The Sound and the Fury", in particular, the beginning passage. "
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Women in William Faulkner's Stories, 2002.
An analysis of the ideology of women in William Faulkner's novels "The Evening Sun", and "A Rose for Emily".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will examine the place of women in the stories of William Faulkner. By analyzing such short stories as "The Evening Sun", and "A Rose for Emily", we can see the place of women in Faulkner's ideals of the feminine sex, but also how they have in the world in his kind. The major ways that this is accomplished in through the characterization that he is so known for, and the ability for his women to take a tragic stance in the stories.
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William Faulkner and Franz Kafka, 2006.
A discussion of "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.
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This paper discusses how "A Rose for Emily" (1930) by William Faulkner and "The Metamorphosis" (1916) by Franz Kafka demonstrate the development and effect of individualism in Western society. The paper further discusses the theme of individualism through the tone of each work's narrators.
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""Metamorphosis," meanwhile, presented the depiction of the individual who wanted to assert himself/herself in a society governed by fixed norms and rules throughout many centuries. Gregor Samsa, who had shown exhaustion from working and supporting his family, was able to assert himself by transforming himself into an insect. As an insect, he was unable to communicate with his family--and worse, he was unable to go to work and earn money to maintain the lifestyle that his family has. This incident is an ironic occurrence in the story: Gregor was only able to assert himself by rendering himself 'incommunicado' or incapable of communicating, with his family. Speaking the language not of people but of insects, he got what he wanted, only at the cost of being misunderstood and eventually, isolated and neglected, by his own family."
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Exploring William Faulkner's "Barn Burning", 2009.
An examination of why and how things occur in the story "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner and how meaning is created in the text.
1,101 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses how in William Faulkner's "Barn Burning," everything occurs in such a way as to focus attention upon the father as the embodiment of the bitter working-man who cannot rise in the world. The writer summarizes the plot and explains how the use of the young boy's point of view, as the narrator, gives meaning and symbolic significance to the father. Further, by only sketchily portraying all the other characters, Faulkner gives the father an overpowering presence as the main figure upon whom the story devolves.
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"As one can see, meaning is created in the story through a variety of methods such as point of view, characterization, and plot development. Of these, the plot development is the most perfunctory as we are almost immediately confronted with the dark spirit of Abner Snopes so there is no suspense in terms of figuring out what he is all about as a human being. Indeed, the fact that the story begins just after Abner has managed to escape punishment for his burning of the Harris farm is surely intended to underscore the implacable, pervasive nature of Abner's dark predilections, predilections which surface again and again throughout the tale."
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William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", 2009.
An analysis of the character of Emily Grierson, the main character in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily".
1,024 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 36.95
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The paper describes the social position of the character of Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and her relationship with her father. The paper attempts to explain how Emily's status and postion lead her to become so desperate emotionally that she is willing to kill a man in order to secure his contact.
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"Emily Grierson, the main character from William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," is an example of the haughty and untouchable stereotype of the southern belle early in her life. The townspeople did not send their children to her with boxes of color and tedious brushes and pictures cut from the ladies' magazines because the front door closed upon the last one and remained closed for good. Faulkner uses flashbacks as the townspeople attempted to reconstruct an accurate picture of Miss Emily's actions starting with her death, explaining a lady of such noble birth, and her desperate private action to have someone to love."
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, 2008.
An in-depth analysis of the character of Emily in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily".
2,257 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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The paper examines the character of Emily in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily", and shows how her state of mind was not normal. The paper explains what influenced Emily's psychological delusions and schizophrenia but then asserts that the act of murdering Homer and living/sleeping with his corpse for many years is proof of her capability of loving. The paper believes that although in a bizarre and morbid way, Emily showed that she also has the right to be loved and that she can also love.
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Introduction
The Character of Emily Grierson
Conclusion
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""A Rose for Emily" is short story by William Faulkner relating the life of Emily Grierson. This literary piece was first read in the 1930 issue of Forum magazine.
"Described as a weird spinster of her time, Emily was an old maid whose life became of interest to the residents of her town as her relationships with her father, a lover, and her male helper revolved around the house where she was known to have lived until her death. The secrets that Emily kept were something that the people of Jefferson town tried to uncover which was consequently revealed at the end of the story. What made this short story of Faulkner popular was the way he weaved the sinister personalities of the characters and its gruesome finale (Faulkner and Inge, 1970)."
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William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!", 2007.
Discusses the intersection of race and class in William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!".
2,680 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper explores the concept of intersectionality, which is the belief that systems of oppression reinforce each other. The author points out that William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" is a novel that demonstrates that race and class are not only important because of what they culturally represent but also because of how the labels, such as "black", can affect the way people view and treat one another. The paper also relates that this book illustrates how race, in both a social and a biological sense, and class cannot be looked at as two separate entities but, instead, must be viewed as concurrent and coexisting ideas. The author presents the novel from the view point of the protagonist Thomas Sutpen.
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"Thomas Sutpen experiences an intersection of race and class when he is a young boy. Sometime during his youth, his father asks him to deliver a message to one of the rich whites in town. He does, and when he gets to the front door, a black man answers. The man was a servant of some kind and asked Sutpen to come around to the back door. Before this incident, Sutpen's only "trouble was innocence." He had believed that white men were white and black men were black, and that automatically put the whites on top of the blacks."
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"As I lay Dying" by William Faulkner, 2008.
This paper is a review of William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses William Faukner's "As I Lay Dying". The author of the paper contends that the book should be understood and analyzed in the context of the modernist literary and philosophical movement. The author states that this movement in thought and art began in the early twentieth century and it is characterized by the central theme of the search for meaning and the understanding of existence in a modern world that seems devoid of meaning. The writer says that it is against this background that we should see the world that Faulkner created in "As I Lay Dying" and that this is one of his most significant works. The paper explores the central theme about the search for meaning in the contemporary world.
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"The early Twentieth Century was a time in which many artists and thinkers questioned and interrogated the status quo and the norms and conventions of society. Many factors precipitated this intense quest for new answers in the face of the dissatisfaction with the present state of affairs in the world. One of these factors was the First World War, which had led to the meaningless slaughter of almost an entire generation of young men. Another factor was the new discoveries that were being made in the sciences and particularly in psychology. The discovery of the subconscious levels of human motivation by Freud had a dramatic effect on the way that people in general perceived reality and also had a profound effect on thinker and artists. In this process, the view of a static objective reality was being questioned."
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