Sartoris

The characters in William Faulkner’s writings were affected by the Southern social classes. “Faulkner’s story, the one story he has to tell, is the his-story of the South into which he was born and which, in turn, has lived in his bones and words.” (Friedman) Old, new and reconstructed South; if it had anything to do about the South, Faulkner would write about it. Not many other writers understood the Southern social class like Faulkner did. When reading William Faulkner’s writings you most…

The resurgence of Malthusian thesis is still very common, but errors in demographic predictions are numerous and serious. It is often overestimated the importance of technological innovation, associated precisely with the population growth. In reality, there are finite resources. The market and intelligence - the ultimate resources - empower several solutions. “I think my position is an ethical position. The truth is that if we do not reduce the population and consumption, then there is an…

In “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner shows that the characters of Miss Emily and Abner Snopes are from different backgrounds but they both are compelled to commit horrible crimes. Miss Emily from “A Rose for Emily” and Abner Snopes from “Barn Burning” seem like very different characters at first glance. However, they both have inclinations that lean toward the violent and sinister when things do not go their way. Miss Emily resorts to murder when her suitor attempts to…

Athens was the birth place of democracy, it was around 507BC when the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a series of political reforms known as the demokratia, which means ‘rule by the people’ (Cartledge, 2011) The following essay will assess the demokratia, arguing that ancient Athens was a real democracy. The first consideration is the great quality of democracy displayed in the Athenian political system. Then, the institutions that Athens had in place were democratic and produced…

Miss Emily refuses her father’s death for three days and also refuses to pay her taxes after Colonel Sartoris told her she didn’t have to pay taxes, ever. She is considered a fallen monument, stubborn, and has a mental illness. The townspeople gossip about her when she starts being seen with Homer Barron. After not being seen with Mr. Barron, the townspeople…

T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is an ironic depiction of both man’s dilemma and neglection of his view of the modern society that lacks any true meaningful relationships between other people. The poem deals with the idea of modernism, a desire to break from traditional way of understanding the world by rejecting the artistic and literature styles of the past. This idea of modernism appears in William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning.” “Barn Burning” shows the son’s dilemma of trying…

that the previous century was one of constant conflict. However, Gartzke noted that the stochastic occurrence of war hinged on uncertainty (1999), thereby suggesting that its outbreak occurred from an underlying condition of peace. Meirowitz and Sartori argued that for war to occur between…

In William Faulkner’s brilliantly twisted story of “A Rose For Emily”, his eloquent yet dark style of writing causes his readers to develop mixed emotions about his main character in order to emphasize how complicated she is. This story about the main character, Emily Grierson, jumps back and forth from the present to the past, detailing the death of her father and how this negatively influenced her life. She becomes practically destitute, with only a house to survive in. Later, she meets a man,…

Political party polarization is a topic of great interest to political scientists. There is a myriad of research on the subject that explores both its generalities and specifics, from explanations of how a party system can become polarized to attempts to quantify levels of polarization in particular nations. In his article “The Quality and the Quantity of Party Systems,” Russell J. Dalton defines the phenomenon as reflecting “the degree of ideological differentiation among political parties in a…

changes. In the story, “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, Miss Emily says, “I have no taxes in Jefferson” (156), and this refusal to pay her taxes is repeated several times throughout the story. When Miss Emily’s father passed away, Colonel Sartoris had informed Miss Emily had she would not have to pay her taxes, however when the newer generation demands her to pay her taxes as per the rules she refuses to come to terms with the change and the reality. The Colonel had died many years ago…