A Rose for Emily
In the short story a Rose for Emily by William Faulkner: Mrs. Emily Grierson faced very difficult situations in her life, from having to pay taxes that she refused on that she was raised in to the death of her father. At her funeral the towns people only came because she was a following monarch Mrs. Emily had another in her lifetime to send her overboard; Nerveless Mrs. Emily was still an evil women. She premeditated the death of her boyfriend and had both Mens rea and Actus Reus present at the crime. Mens Rea the mental state a person must be in while committing a crime for it to be intentional. (Jefferson pg.12) Mrs. Emily Grierson thought about how she was going to kill her boyfriend based on section III. "I want some…show more content… . . arsenic? Yes, ma'am. But what you want--"
"I want arsenic."
The druggist should have never let Mrs. Emily get the Arsenic based on the law back then require you to tell why you was using something that power however that’s not what happen
“The druggist said. “If that's what you want. But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for." Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up. The Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn't come back. When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats."…show more content… Among them lay a collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust. Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks. The man himself lay in the bed. (Faulkner). The clue that she indeed kill him and known about his body being down there is the next few lines Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.