INSANITY IN WOMEN

Insanity in Women (Ophelia and Emily)

Insanity in Women (Ophelia and Emily)

Thesis: “Insanity in women is caused by lack of power and their tendency to be victims of manipulation”. In writing Hamlet and A Rose for Emily, both William Shakespeare and William Faulkner's came up this idea.

A Rose for Emily

Emily is the last remnant of the nobility of the Grierson, former representative of Jefferson. "A monument does not accept the progress that has refused to receive free mail delivery service and that you get a mailbox. A woman who, "after her boyfriend abandoned" (red herring of the author, but not focused), does not leave his house despite the unbearable stench that forces residents to get to sneak into your garden and throwing lime. He spends his last thirty years alone, except for the company of a black servant at the same time cook and gardener, his only contact with the outside world and who "did not talk to anyone, probably not with her (Barber, 1973).

Summary

"In life, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty and a responsibility." In principle, the citation refers to what was seen and treated Emily, and on a superficial level, the way it is exempted from paying taxes, thanks to Colonel Sartoris, the mayor of the city (and bearing a name that will appear in several Faulkner's works.) But in a second level of interpretation, the words refer to the argument. Emily, noble south lady full of dignity forced to augment up in the tumultuous times after the municipal War. Defended by her dad from the ills of the outside world, she shortly finds herself facing a life of loneliness and despair. Colonel Sartoris, know that the Griersons are fundamentally penniless, and devises a plan to remit overlook Emily's future levies on the homestead to help her sustain the dignity of the Grierson title; she accepts this from the Colonel. Although Sartorius' placement relieves her of some of the financial burdens, and might not help her loneliness. First, the past is symbolized, all through the story in Ms. Emily and her place of residence. She is a representation of the Old South and the way things use to be. The summer after her father's death, she observes a group of black laborers, being commanded by “a foreman entitle commanded Homer Barron, a Yankee a large-scale, dark prepared man with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face.” They are shortly glimpsed simultaneously by the townspeople on Sunday after noon on a normal basis, going by car round village in a yellow-wheeled buggy. At first the townspeople are pleased that Miss Emily a south Lady is seeing a Northerner. “But there are still others, who state that even the grief of mislaying her dad will origin a genuine woman to overlook” her obligation to act with honor and dignity, being a constituent of nobility. Emily starts to see Homer on a regular basis, retaining “her head high,” displaying no signals of losing her respect ...