Southern Gothic Romanticism
1.) Southern Gothic Romanticism is a subgenre to Gothic Romanticism.. It focuses on the southern part of the United States.
2.) "A Rose for Emily" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" exhibit Gothic traits because the have one character that is grotesque,("A Rose For Emily" is Emily herself and in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is Mr. Shiftlet) having sympathy for others and having disgust for them at the same time; they also have a run down home that they live in ("A Rose for Emily" It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with
cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the
seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and
cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that
neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and
coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore
among eyesores.") or they live in isolation ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own" Although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter..."). The stories and their literature compare to Romanticism by having a character that exhibits emotional value toward another character.
3.) In "A Rose for Emily" Emily's crime goes undetected because she was seen as someone who couldn't love others or receive love. This is evident because throughout the story the elderly people are having sympathy for Emily by saying, "Poor Emily" nearly every time the town people see her outside of her house. Everyone also thought that she would have married H.B. but when she didn't, the people continued to say "Poor Emily." Nobody assumed she had killed him even though they never saw H.B. out of the house again. "(And, as we had expected all
along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the
Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.
And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron.") Emily was also someone who didn't accept change because she had never updated her house. She was afraid of losing the past, so she never changed anything about her house ("We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We
remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that
with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people
will.").
4.) The episode when Mr. Shiftlet picks up the hitchhiker is essential to the story because if Shiftlet hadn't picked him up, the reader wouldn't have known how Shiftlet felt after he left Lucynell at the cafe. The hitchhiker is important because without him in the end, we wouldn't have also known what would happen to Shiftlet, which he feels guilty because the boy had compared his mother to Shiftlet's mother (a fleabag to a stinking polecat). "The boy turned angrily in the seat. "You go to the devil!" he cried. "My old woman is a flea bag and yours is a stinking pole cat!" and with that he flung the door open and jumped out with his suitcase into the ditch.". Shiftlet has feelings for Lucynell so without the hitchhiker we wouldn't have known about his feelings.
2.) "A Rose for Emily" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" exhibit Gothic traits because the have one character that is grotesque,("A Rose For Emily" is Emily herself and in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" is Mr. Shiftlet) having sympathy for others and having disgust for them at the same time; they also have a run down home that they live in ("A Rose for Emily" It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with
cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the
seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and
cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that
neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and
coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore
among eyesores.") or they live in isolation ("The Life You Save May Be Your Own" Although the old woman lived in this desolate spot with only her daughter..."). The stories and their literature compare to Romanticism by having a character that exhibits emotional value toward another character.
3.) In "A Rose for Emily" Emily's crime goes undetected because she was seen as someone who couldn't love others or receive love. This is evident because throughout the story the elderly people are having sympathy for Emily by saying, "Poor Emily" nearly every time the town people see her outside of her house. Everyone also thought that she would have married H.B. but when she didn't, the people continued to say "Poor Emily." Nobody assumed she had killed him even though they never saw H.B. out of the house again. "(And, as we had expected all
along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the
Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.
And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron.") Emily was also someone who didn't accept change because she had never updated her house. She was afraid of losing the past, so she never changed anything about her house ("We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We
remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that
with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people
will.").
4.) The episode when Mr. Shiftlet picks up the hitchhiker is essential to the story because if Shiftlet hadn't picked him up, the reader wouldn't have known how Shiftlet felt after he left Lucynell at the cafe. The hitchhiker is important because without him in the end, we wouldn't have also known what would happen to Shiftlet, which he feels guilty because the boy had compared his mother to Shiftlet's mother (a fleabag to a stinking polecat). "The boy turned angrily in the seat. "You go to the devil!" he cried. "My old woman is a flea bag and yours is a stinking pole cat!" and with that he flung the door open and jumped out with his suitcase into the ditch.". Shiftlet has feelings for Lucynell so without the hitchhiker we wouldn't have known about his feelings.
1) needs a little more explanation.
ReplyDelete2)-4) need quotes to back up what you are saying. i like what you say about how the hitchhiker shows us shiftlet's feelings! :)
Okay thanks for the feedback. I'll see if I can fix my mistakes. :)
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