William Faulkner

The main purpose of Jehlen’s article “Faulkner’s Fiction and Southern Society” is to discuss how Faulkner viewed the South and how it affected his writing, particularly in the stories set in Yoknapatawpha. It states that these stories are “tense with extreme, unresolvable contradictions,” and contends that these are “neither temperamental nor linguistic in origin but expressed [Faulkner’s] profoundly discordant view of Southern life.” It opens with a quote from Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust…

In the short story, “ A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author conveyed the meaning of human cruelty, selfishness, and the desire to dominate nature for their own benefits through the constant use of symbolism in the text as illustrated with the manipulation and neglection of the old man by the couple. One of the major symbol used in this short story was the old man’s enormous wings that signify freedom, power, as well as the natural and…

Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find takes us on the journey of unlikely receivers of redemptive grace. The story follows Grandmother and her family on a road expedition to their approaching fate carried out by the Misfit and his associated convicts. Flannery O’Connor presents exaggerations in her characters to demonstrate their depraved sense of character. The main theme is acknowledged through a last moment epiphany towards the end of the story. Flannery O’Conner sets the reader up…

Faulkner’s novel. Whilst being in the same room as Addie just as she had passed away, Darl narrates, “Pa breathes with a quiet, rasping sound, mouthing the snuff against his gums. “God’s will be done,” he says. “Now I can get them teeth” (Faulkner 52). Faulkner writing about Anse’s fixation on getting new teeth causes his character to create an aura of selfishness and self-interest that diminish his act of heroism of going to Jefferson. Another contributing reason for Anse’s motivations to…

The Bundren family from William Faulkner's As I lay Dying are a unique family, in that they don’t really fit the mold of what most would think a family should be: a unit. They are disconnected as a group, often saying one thing while thinking another. While Addie’s burial is the central reason for them going on a journey to Jefferson, some of the family members have motives of their own. Evident in that half of them with the exception of Darl, Cash and Jewel have other reasons than to bury Addie…

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flanner O'Connor was an extremely famous author from Savannah, Georgia who was able to create vivid stories through his writing career. One of most renowned characters in his works, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, stated “There is no real pleasure in life” (O’Conner) however, there are many pleasurable things in life. Flanner experienced many hardships growing up in the nineteen-twenties. It was not only a time of The Great Depression, but her father died of lupus when…

Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead, depicts the story of a platoon of soldiers in the fight against Japan during World War II. War in pop culture is usually depicted with tons of action and has larger than life heroes. Although this may be true that war has action and heroes, very few adaptations through either film or novel, capture the psychological struggles of war on the soldiers. In times of war, soldiers have to kill other soldiers, make tough decisions on the battlefront, and even…

Flannery O’Connor “Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She was the only child of Regina L. Cline and Edward F. O’Connor Jr. Both of her parents grew up Roman Catholics. The Clines were a prominent family in the state, Regina Cline’s father having been mayor of Milledgeville for many years (n.pag.Hyman). O’Connor may have only been alive for 39 years, but in those 39 years, she became a very successful writer (n.pag. Shurbutt). In her short years she wrote…

Walter White's story in Breaking Bad illustrates Machiavelli’s idea of Virtù. Virtù is defined as drive, talent, or ability directed toward the achievement of certain goals. When his story began, Walter began cooking meth and distributing it to make sure that his family would be well off after his death. However, as his story continued, he becomes power-hungry and lost everyone that he had tried to support. His quest for power changed his original glory from righteousness to selfishness.…

The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also the first to arrive carefully pinned to the coat of a five-year-old girl. The lawyer who escorts her to the theater refuses to explain despite the manager’s protestations, abandoning her as quickly as he can with no more than a shrug and the tip of a hat. The theater manager does not need to read…