“A Rose for Emily” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” and Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Fall of The House of Usher” both demonstrate socially impaired families who are psychologically disturbed from the view point of others. These two separate families seem to have incestual relationships causing other illnesses to appear. It is known that incest in humans can cause complications, whether it happens mentally or to offspring. Emily in “A Rose for Emily” and Roderick in “The Fall of the House of Usher” both suffer from serious mental illness.
“A Rose for Emily” is about a girl whose father does not allow her to date except for one man who died unexpectedly a few years before her father’s …show more content…
Incest is having “sexual contact between family members” (“Sexual Abuse and Assault Against Women.”). This type of relationship can cause many problems physically and mentally with offspring and those who are partaking in the relationship. The symptoms of an incestual relationship can include birth defects, deformity, higher risk of disease development, lower intelligence level, and possibly even early death. Many people who are in an incestual relationship suffer with strange emotional attachment, insecurity, and possessive feelings toward their partners. Incest can cause other, more severe, mental illnesses such as Necrophilia, Manic Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and …show more content…
A while after her father passes, a man named Homer Barron comes to town and almost instantly Emily is attracted to him and starts to take an interest in him. Shortly after, there are rumors of marriage between the two as well as other rumors about Homer being homosexual. Emily then poisons him, kills him, and keeps him all to herself. Constance Pierce believes that “Emily Grierson, an aging southern belle, murders the lover who spurned her and sleeps beside his skeleton for forty years” (Pierce 1360). Emily had issues with insecurity already because her father, who she was closest to, left her. She then, for the next forty years, will treat him like her husband and partake in marital acts with him. Emily’s hair was found beside Homer’s rotten corpse which proves to the audience that her necrophilia was very accurate and obviously a sign of security in her
“A Rose for Emily” is about a girl whose father does not allow her to date except for one man who died unexpectedly a few years before her father’s …show more content…
Incest is having “sexual contact between family members” (“Sexual Abuse and Assault Against Women.”). This type of relationship can cause many problems physically and mentally with offspring and those who are partaking in the relationship. The symptoms of an incestual relationship can include birth defects, deformity, higher risk of disease development, lower intelligence level, and possibly even early death. Many people who are in an incestual relationship suffer with strange emotional attachment, insecurity, and possessive feelings toward their partners. Incest can cause other, more severe, mental illnesses such as Necrophilia, Manic Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and …show more content…
A while after her father passes, a man named Homer Barron comes to town and almost instantly Emily is attracted to him and starts to take an interest in him. Shortly after, there are rumors of marriage between the two as well as other rumors about Homer being homosexual. Emily then poisons him, kills him, and keeps him all to herself. Constance Pierce believes that “Emily Grierson, an aging southern belle, murders the lover who spurned her and sleeps beside his skeleton for forty years” (Pierce 1360). Emily had issues with insecurity already because her father, who she was closest to, left her. She then, for the next forty years, will treat him like her husband and partake in marital acts with him. Emily’s hair was found beside Homer’s rotten corpse which proves to the audience that her necrophilia was very accurate and obviously a sign of security in her