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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". Similarities between the two works are explored along the thematic dimension. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Symbolism in Poe and Faulkner , 11/2010 --for
more information on using this paper properly! Many stories possess core similarities to one another, even when the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot
differ quite dramatically. For instance, one might consider the William Faulkner short story, "A Rose for Emily", alongside Edgar Allen Poes "The Cask of Amontillado". The overall events of these
two stories are markedly different from one another, and the mode of expression utilized by each tends to differ as well. What each one does share, however, is a masterful
use of symbolism to tie the existing narrative to the thematic ideas manifest in the work. In the example given, Poes work is a dark case study of madness and
revenge, while Faulkners work is a more rural depiction of how small towns can grow to center around key figures to the detriment of those individuals, yet both contain elements
of interpersonal isolation which drives characters towards murder. This paper will examine the symbols used in each of the stories, as well as how they ultimately relate to one another
from a holistic perspective. This paragraph assists the study in providing a brief overview of Faulkners "A Rose for Emily, the first story to be analyzed in this paper. Faulkners
"A Rose for Emily" opens in a manner very much in keeping with the southern authors famous tendency towards the grotesque: with the funeral of the titular character. The narrator,
an unidentified townsperson who seems familiar with the history of the towns interactions with Emily, recounts the story. Everything began, or so says the narrator, some thirty years before,
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