Examples Of Necrophilia In 'A Rose For Emily'

Necrophilia Tendencies Although its hard to find yourself alone in this world. There is always going to be a passing of someone or something that we truely care about. We often move between stages before achieving a more amicable acceptance of death. Many of us are not afforded the luxury of time required to achieve this final stage of grief. Although people experience grief differently, no one should ever judge. This passage from ''A Rose for Emily'' by William Faulkner is crucial because Emily goes through the grieving process when her father passes away. Love makes you do crazy things, some things that you wouldn't normally do or think of. The passage states that the whole town took pity to Emily's life. Her father was a strict man that …show more content…
The medical definition of necrophilia is a morbid fondness for being in the presence of dead bodies. And the impulse to have sexual contact, or the act of such contact, with a dead body, usually of men with female corpses. (Merriams) In the middle of the story it explains how Emily is the way she is because of her father. She just wanted to have her own family and to be loved by not only her family, but by a real man. (Faulkner) When Homer comes into the picture all seems peachy until he states that he is not the marrying type. (139) Homer leaves on occasion and thats when Emily is fed up.It triggers something inside Emily; hence, why she went to the store to buy rat posion-of course the town thinks its for her. They thought it was her time to go. Tought she couldn't hack it (being alone and all). Were almost forced to believe that Emily is weak because she was the last of her family. The town pittied her so much as well as gossip about her situations. But in the end it comes down to her being alittle more dereanged than ''weak''. She was completely fine with having her fathers and her husbands corpse in the