Introduction
William Faulkner's stories have a common theme of sharing aspects of Southern culture
Social class also plays a huge part in the stories
A Rose for Emily
Barn Burning
Post Civil War
Yoknapatawpha Mississippi (not real)
b. The setting/environment influences each character (mainly the protagonist/main character) and their actions
Information about William Faulkner
Each element of his stories comes from a part of his life.
"William Faulkner spent most of his days in Oxford Mississippi...." (p.30 Kennedy, X. J.)
"During World War 1 he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force....." (p.30 Kennedy, X. J.)
"Faulkner's private life was a long struggle to stay …show more content…
Influence (critics)
A Rose for Emily
"My reading suggests that the narration incriminates the community in which Emily lived by making them partly responsible for her descent into madness." (FRANKS, TRAVIS.)
"Prompted by the ending, there is a sense that narrator and reader are to revel together in the conclusion of Emily’s spectacle much more than reel from it in disgust. While Emily’s actions are her own, the arc of her life is constructed through a narrative framework meant to shock and delight." (FRANKS, TRAVIS.)
"The narrator makes this abundantly clear early on in the story: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house”. She is described as having “been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town”. And, in watching the unraveling of her life with vulture-like curiosity, the townspeople eventually abet her crime, making them, at least to some degree, culpable for it." (FRANKS, TRAVIS.)
Barn …show more content…
Even though they are both in the same location both characters are very different.
But they commonly share tragic endings to their stories.
The outside influences of the world and people in it affect the outcome of the main characters
Outside forces helped dictate Emily and Sarty's
William Faulkner's stories have a common theme of sharing aspects of Southern culture
Social class also plays a huge part in the stories
A Rose for Emily
Barn Burning
Post Civil War
Yoknapatawpha Mississippi (not real)
b. The setting/environment influences each character (mainly the protagonist/main character) and their actions
Information about William Faulkner
Each element of his stories comes from a part of his life.
"William Faulkner spent most of his days in Oxford Mississippi...." (p.30 Kennedy, X. J.)
"During World War 1 he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force....." (p.30 Kennedy, X. J.)
"Faulkner's private life was a long struggle to stay …show more content…
Influence (critics)
A Rose for Emily
"My reading suggests that the narration incriminates the community in which Emily lived by making them partly responsible for her descent into madness." (FRANKS, TRAVIS.)
"Prompted by the ending, there is a sense that narrator and reader are to revel together in the conclusion of Emily’s spectacle much more than reel from it in disgust. While Emily’s actions are her own, the arc of her life is constructed through a narrative framework meant to shock and delight." (FRANKS, TRAVIS.)
"The narrator makes this abundantly clear early on in the story: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house”. She is described as having “been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town”. And, in watching the unraveling of her life with vulture-like curiosity, the townspeople eventually abet her crime, making them, at least to some degree, culpable for it." (FRANKS, TRAVIS.)
Barn …show more content…
Even though they are both in the same location both characters are very different.
But they commonly share tragic endings to their stories.
The outside influences of the world and people in it affect the outcome of the main characters
Outside forces helped dictate Emily and Sarty's