Prompt #2: A Rose for Emily “Emily Grierson a modest, traditional woman had a sense of duty and care alive. Kept up with tradition instilled by her father before his tragic demise, had a sense of a hereditary obligation to the town.” Emily Grierson went through many conflicts with herself and society. Coming into a modern time, she faced the townspeople’s judgements in their society and deals with some internal conflicts facing the tragedy of her father. Also, in reality, she has issues with the
In, ‘A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner divides the short story into five parts to permit the narrator to reveal what he knows about the life and death of Emily Grierson through a series of flashbacks. This separation and mixture of recurring memories is what makes the reader fall into the trap of feeling both pity, and sympathy, towards, “Poor Emily,” (6) who is a actually just a cynical, stubborn, and lonely character who refuses change throughout her whole life. Emily who was,” a tradition,”
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin