Abstract

In this research we try to discover the perception of “Southern Belle” in a holistic perspective. The key focus of the study is on “William Faulkner” and its relation with “Barn Burn”, “A rose for emily” and “ As I lay dying”. The research also examines various characteristics of “William Faulkner's Writing” and tries to gauge its effect. Lastly the research portrays a variety of features of, “William Faulkner's Writing” and tries to describe the overall effect of it.

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion and Analysis3

Conclusion5

The fall of Southern Belle

Introduction

The Companion to Southern Literature claims that the cult of Southern femininity grew out of the nineteenth century plantation society in the South. It adapted this model of womanhood from the European “feudal system of lords, knights, and ladies with attending servants”. Just as medieval times engendered their own legends and archetypes, the images of the Southern belle and lady became intrinsically linked with the mythology of plantation life itself. The concept of the belle was a gradual cultural revolution, but its first acknowledged appearance in literature was in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn.

Discussion and Analysis

William Faulkern's life is a collection of contrasts, crossed by the force of his literary creations. That's why you will discover a game in the series of works, and especially in the titles of these. His first publication was poetic: The Marble Faun, though a book with little success, expressed by the figure of the Faun (Roman god of the fields, sensual and lustful man) its alliance with the agricultural south and also his love of sensuality exposed to throughout their stories. Adolescence, shows the writer's youth Lyrically, because this is a beautiful tale of initiation. At the same time tells the transition to adolescence of his character, the awakening to life and many other things that happen to live in a space, a family and a difficult time. Continue: The pay of the soldier and Sartoris, which shows the historical context of war, and their family ties with the army, like his own experiences in piloting (Volpe, 11).

A rose for Emily focuses on an aging Southern spinster, Emily Grierson, whose death sets into motion an achronological recounting of key moments in her life. Narrated by a garrulous storyteller who represents the town of Jefferson in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the story presents memories of Emily's adolescence, during which she was sheltered by an overprotective father, and of her being courted following her father's death by a Yankee road-paving contractor named Homer Barron. When Homer disappears, the town assumes he jilted her. Soon thereafter, townspeople began noticing a strong smell surrounding Emily's house. The final scene in the story reveals the cause: Emily had poisoned Homer and placed his corpse in her "bridal" bed, presumably to keep him from deserting her. The last sentence, revealing the presence of "a long strand of iron-gray hair" on the pillow next to his skeleton, suggests a relationship that lasted well into her old age. One major theme in the story concerns the passage of ...