AnAnalysisofEmilysLoveinARoseforEmily英语论

1、15an analysis of emily s love in a rose for emilyi. introductionwilliam faulkner was considered by many to be the greatest writer of fiction that theunited states has yet produced. he was born in new albany, mississippi in 1897 and raised in nearby oxford, is pictured as the prototype of the soft-sp

2、oken southern gentleman, gentle, kind,and courteous and alsocold, a master of withering(rveobpueff.81). he wa”s the most famouswriters in crisof all contemporary writers of the american south, who is remarked in“ not merely represents but was the deep south as no other american novelist may quite ch

3、ime to be ” . most of his major works were set in the imaginary yoknapaowpha county and its main town of jefferson called“the mythical kin(ggdeoismmar.4”7), which bear marked similaritiesto faulkner s native oxford. he alsdoepicted the particular psychological stresses associated with the decline of

4、 the south from its romantically glorious past. above all, “ faulknerrepresents the moral confusion and social decay that followed in images of haunting power and violence ” . he received the 1950 nobel prize for literature, william faulkner s repinfluence had spread to every part of the world.faulk

5、ner was noted of the southerners association with the south tradition, not only physical, but spiritual as well ； so he took pains to picture a group of southerners who were desperately submitted to the old way of life. but as an artist of the twentieth century, he observed the gradual changes of th

6、e south: the old veterans were dying off, and the old loyalties were adjusted to conform to new conditions. the loss of the south tradition and the appearance of the north industrialization aroused not only the devastation of the southern plantation system, but also the macabre disillusionment to th

7、e southern descendants,as the south knew them. whereas, they saw that world changing into another kind and they were themselves of that new changed world, yet apart from it. faulkner revealed with intensity the rootless of the southern descendants.they witnessed that northern industrialization penet

8、rated the south, but their inherited southern aristocracy forbade their acceptance of the new order of life. they stubbornly objected to the invasion of the northern way of life, but in vain. so the southern descendants had to suffer from the loneliness and bitterness of being an apart-from in a new

9、 world. the disillusionment of the southerners was well revealed in the portrayal of emily in a rose for emily.a rose for emily by william faulkner was a short fiction that has roots in the southern united states with appealing overtones of mystery that was told in a historical context. it was publi

10、shed in 1930. it was one of the best known and the most widely read among faulkner short stories. the story took place in a mythical town that william faulkner called jefferson, mississippi. the time of the story was during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the town was learning

11、 to live with south loss in the civil war of 1861 1865 and the consequent dismantling of the slavery based society that had preceded it. the story expresses faulkners theme of the confrontation of the old south and the civilized modern society. in a rose for emily faulkner wrote the conflicts betwee

12、n the old tradition and the new order, and the doomed defeat of the old tradition. emily lived in her“big, squarest frame houseonce had been our most select street ” , but her house was on its way to“ coquettishthe cotton wagons and gasoline pumps ” . and the onces“tremetowsthsicehlewctas filled wit

13、hhouses decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies w” as then encroached and obliterated by “ garagesand cotton gins ” t. he invasion of the northern industrialization did not stop at that, it also intruded into the minds of the southerne

14、rs. faulkner admired somewhat the merits of the south tradition-the compassion and humanity men like colonel sartoris and his peers inherited forced them to tell a kind lie to emily so as to look after the single lady without insulting her dignity. but “ onlya man of colonel sartoris generation and

15、thought could have invented it (” faulkner.103), the mortal values of the south tradition were lost. the new generation of public officials may be more efficient and businessman-like. they were more practical:“ the next generation, with its moremodern ideas (” faulkner.103), produced some little dis

16、satisfaction to the“hereditary obligupon the town (” faulkner.105). the new generation was not as kind and dignified as the old generation. they showed much less respect to even a nobly lady like miss emily; they suggestedjust “ sendingher word to have her place cleaned up” when some town people com

17、plained the odd smell from emily rsesidence, but the old generation like judge stevens totally objected to the ideas, for it was shameful to“accuse a lady to her face of smellithe conflicts between the old generation and the new one hinted the decline of the southern tradition. faulkner believed tha

18、t it was the moral values-courage, honor, pride, compassion, literary and justice that produced the glorious southern kingdom, but the new generation lost the virtues, thus losing its faith and force. the southern civilization was decaying, and the northern mechanization was penetrating the south wi

19、th its merciless and ambitious way. all these led to the inevitable ending-the death of emily or the fall of the monument. which made her a tragic victim?in the short story a rose for emily, william faulkner told the sad story of a woman who has had an extremely sheltered life. it was a tragic story

20、 in which miss emilys hopes and dreams for a normal life are hopelessly lost. the story told emily s life, from her beinher death in her house. the town pseople did not like her, her family did not like her. she confronted with the conflicts between individual and society, tradition and reality, fel

21、l in love with and finally killed her love, emily, who was deprived of the chance of establishing a normal relationship between her and society, escapes from reality and ultimately goes insane. when she died, everybody showed up to miss emily. the only person to see emily was her old manservant, a b

22、lack man that was the cook and the gardener. the only time that the town would see him was when he went to the grocery store to shop. he would never talk to anybody whilehe was there. the end of emily life never saw emily out of her house. the town questioned this, but emily soon just became another

23、 story with the town. william faulkner wrote about two lovers; emily grierson and homer barron, with conflicting personalities that eventually lead up to emily poisoning homer in his sleep. faulkner discussed their dissimilar social backgrounds and emotional behaviors as well as symbolizing emily wi

24、th “ the oldtimes ” and homer with“ the new times. ” emily s love was a tragedy. her tragedy was her character s tragbuilded a great wall in her heart which caused the result. love was the only helping straw after her father died. so emily cherished the love between her and homer barron. the strong

25、feeling of possession and her unhealthy character cause her tragedy. emily ms arriage was also atragedy. this paper analyses emilys views on love and marriage froemriehnecreeoxfpbeingin love that is different from that of ordinary people in some particular social background. and this rose for emily

26、was not only for herself, but also for the successors, for today and future. when people msind become thinner and more confused with the post-industrialization, thisrose s warning is quite important.ii. influence of her fatheremily had a father who was a strict man and he did not let her have a heal

27、thy social life. he made her an outcast in her own community. miss emily was kept at home by her father and was almost hidden from the world. her father caged her inside the same house with the same butler. but she still loved her father, and after he dead she still kept the photo of her father.a. e

28、mily s love when her father s alivethe grierson family was a big family of great wealth with a well pronounced rich lineage.miss emily grierson was the socialite of her town. naturally with this status there was a certain reputation she has to withhold. she not only representedher family name but in

29、 a sensethe people of her town. because she was such a dominant figure the townspeople have put her on a pedestal and were very judgmental of her actions. during the time in which her father was alive emily was seen as a figure to be admired but never touched. she had many suitors but according to h

30、er father none were suitable enough. emily was revered as a goddess in the townspeople s eyes. at that society, father was the leader. emily s father was a powthe family. he was uncaring, abusive, and arrogant. apparently he kept miss emily hidden from fitting suitors and did not let her make a life

31、 of her own. miss emily had always been kept in confined environments that only her father knew what she would do. when her father was alive, he turned away any man that she had, because no man was ever good enough for his daughter.whenever a male would came to the house to see emily, he would greet

32、 them at the door, and saw them off before emily could even say hello. he did not allow emily out and marry. under her father s control, emily has no freedom of love. that s a door before emily, and themay be think it was her father.so her father, there was no imagination needed, for from the contex

33、t we can plainly see that he was a very overbearing man that didn t allow her to see men for any reason at all. he kept her locked away inside the house and never let her leave his side. nevertheless his impressionable nature has been left to us in the very beginning of the story where it was shownt

34、o the reader from the thoughts of the town as such“ miss emily a slender figure in white ibackground, her father a spraddled silhouette with foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip (faulkner 107). emily, being highly concealed by her father, had to live with many restrictions of life,

35、resulting in a pronounced backlash and profuse alteration of her personality. it was this image that offered this lingering image of a demonizing man with intimidation as his most favored pass time.when emily was young, she was followed by her father, never left. when emily became a beautiful girl,

36、many young men engaged her. but her father stubbornly tried to keep the fame of the noble family. emily fsather, who entertained rigid ideas of social status, deprives her of youth, love and happiness by preventing her from marrying her town fellows during his lifetime to maintain the dignity of the

37、“high and mighty grierson ” . he was tenacity to the old trawhich survives even after his death. he was in his lifetime prevented any town youth from marrying her daughter, “ for the young men were not from distinguished family like grierson. as the town people commented, the grierson held them a li

38、ttle too high for what really were. none of the young men were quite good enough to miss emily so such (faulkn”er.106). the deceased father used to force away all the young men that were in love with her. and he did not allow emily get in touch with anyone. so emily and her father live together. her

39、 father was the only spirit of emily. through we couldn utnderstand all of was wrong or right, but we can discover emily s first step was wrong. not for her after her father.b. the love after her father s deathwhen her father passed away, she felt like she had nothing. and the love of emily and fath

40、er was not only shown in the actions, but also shown in the spirit .the love of emily and father was not ended but became strong. her father s passing away was a devastating lossemily. never being able to develop any relationship with anyone else it was as if they world completely crumbled around he

41、r. emily tried to hold on to him in some way even though his spirit had left. so, she did not think her father died. after her father s death, emunder his father s shadow of her aristocratic fa-m-itlhye grierson. miss emily stubbornly clung to the past. she refused to release her father for burial,

42、and kept his portrait in a prominent place in her living room: it was a connection to the old tradition, and her spiritual support. the day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the door, but emily was dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. she told them that her fathe

43、r was not dead. she did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.miss emily did not accept the passing of tim

44、e: neither did she accept changes, nor the loss that accompanied her. emily maintained her aristocratic dignity. she refused to cooperate with modernization in the pastel service, answering the tax notice on the“ paper of an archaic shape in a then flowing calligraphy in fade d ink ”. (faulkner.107)

45、 her clinging to the past developed into such obsession and homicidal mania that she killed homer barron when she knew he would not marry her. after her fathers death, it seemed there remained no door. however, emily still seemed separated. the door still existed. why? at that time, emily herself wa

46、s the door. she closed the door because of two reasons. firstly, she became accustomed. secondly, she wanted to protect herself. in this story, we saw a lot of trouble people. her sisters wanted to control emily. they did not love her but wanted to control her. so the door needed to be closed. then

47、some people who lost their kind heart also wanted emily to pay taxes. all these things told emily that the door should be closed. if she opened the door while without her fathers protection, then, who could protect her? but emily opened the door for a man.iii. love between homer barron and emilyall

48、of us known the love were beautiful .the love of emily and homer barron was an unhappy tragedy, the reason of which lies in the social traditions as well as emily herself. and no one help her.a. emily s beautiful love with homer barronlove was one thing that all human have, emily also thirsted for l

49、ove. her fatherwas a devastating loss for her. she could not bear the thought of being alone and needs a man who loved her. while miss emily was still distressed by her father desath, homer slove brought miss emily out of her sorrow. homer barron was a foreman of construction company. he was a yanke

50、e-a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. the little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the niggers, and the niggers singing in time to the rise and fall of picks. petty soon he knew everybody in town. whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the

51、 square, homer barron would be in the center of the group.we can see that he was a good talker. emily loved him deeply. it cslear that emily deserves all this though she was deprived of freedom of love; she still cherished in her heart of hearts a potential lust for love and sex. that s why in the s

52、ummer after her fatherappearedin a new look , “ hehrair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows-s-ort of tragic and serene ” , and quickly she fell in love with a yankee. emily thirsted for love. she could give up all things like

53、 dignity, pride and self- respect for homer barron. she arranged the new house and had been to the jewelers and ordered a mans toilet set in silver, with the letters h. b. on each piece. and she had bought a complete outfit of mens clothing, including a nightshirt for him. from these points, we can

54、see that emily wanted to marry homer barron. she opened the door for a black which was hard to comprehend. why didnt she marry a white? then lets return to her fathers protection. her father had refused a lot of whites to be her husband. though her father had passed away, his influence still existed

55、. she wouldnt accept any white man. though her father would also never accept a black, but he had never said so. so emily accepted the black. but she also closed the door to keep the dead boyfriends body inside. it seemedquite similar to her fathers action. yes, she wanted to keep him and never lose

56、 him. he became anotherfather b. other s remark to her loveemily came from a typical southern rich family, because of the way she was brought up by her father, emily believed she was superior, this made her seem arrogant. miss emily belonged to high class, which made her superior to the townspeople.

57、 the town was very small and isolated. there was a great deal of gossip that regularly circulates from people to people in the town with great interest. because of the small town, the private life of a person became known to other people rapidly. emily rselationship with construction worker, homer b

58、arron, was a talk of the town. therefore society could not accept her going below her standards and having relationship with homer. so everyone in the town was whispering about their relationship. then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young

59、people. the men did not want to interfere, but at last the ladies forced the baptistminister to call upon her. he would never divulge what happened during that interview, but herefused to go back again. despite the towns criticism, emily still held her head up high. shedid not care of them.they passed on sundaynaofotenr in the glittering buggy, miss emilywith her head high