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Essays 271 - 300
5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...
In eight pages this paper discusses how social evolution is represented in the characters of Janie Woods in Hurston's Their Eyes W...
below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...
so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...
late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...
in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...
pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...
In six pages this paper analyzes the Southern family decline as represented by the Compson clan in The Sound and the Fury and also...
have little respect for each other as people. This family, in the end, only gives a surface appearance of going beyond their indiv...
In eleven pages this paper presents a thematic comparison of the novels by Faulkner and Hawthorne and the common threads of family...
struggle to find order among chaos (Monarch Notes PG). There was a definite method to the madness of Faulkners writing, and its n...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...
The supposed madness of the titled protagonist is the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and evaluates whether or not she...