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1、報(bào)新The Theme of a Rose for Emily名師資料合集The Theme of a Rose for EmilyResistance to changeThis is perhaps the mostrecurrent theme in the book Despite the familys fallen fortunes, Emilys father resists allowing any suitors to propose to Emily. This gradually erodes her chances of ever being married. She

2、eventually settles for Homer, but the townspeople see this as an affront to her noble heritage, and she eventually murders Homer and dies a recluse. Emilys in ability to realize her fathers death and refusal to adapt to a changing world intensify her seclusion.IsolationTheres no getting around the f

3、act thatA Rose for Emily is a story about the extremes of isolation 一 by physical and emotional. This Faulkner classic shows us the process by which human beings become isolated by their families, by their comm unity, by tradition, by law, by the past, and by their own acti ons and choices .In effec

4、t, this story takes a stand against such isolation, and against all those who isolate others. When you get through with this story, you might feel the urge to take a nice stroll in the county, or at least take a spin around the park Go! Breathe the air; feel the sunshine; visit a friend.Memory and t

5、he PastGavin Stevens (a WilliamFaulkner character) famously says, The past is never dead .Its not eve n past. This idea is highly visible in all Faulkners work, and we definitely see it here, in A Rose for Emily. Spanning approximately 74 years, this short story spins backwards and forwards in time

6、like memory, and shows a southern town torn between the present and the past. Post-Civil War and PreCivil Rights, A Rose for Emily shows us an American South in limbo, trying desperately, with each gen eration, to find a better way, a way which honors the good of the past, while coming to terms with

7、 its evils.Visions of America A Rose for Emily does ntlook at America through rose-colored glasses, even though many of its characters do. In the aftermath of slavery, the American South shown in the novel is in bad shape The novel deals with the stubborn refusal of some southerners to see that the

8、America they believed in - an America based on slavery 一 was no more. The story covers about 74 years, beginning sometime just before the Civil War. The focus, however, is on the periods from about 1894 to 1935 Because the dates are all jumbled together, we have to work to untangle the stories prese

9、nt vision of America from the vision of the past.Versions of Reality By showing people withskewed versions of reality, A Rose for Emily asks us to take off our rose-colored glasses and look reality in the face What we confront is the reality of America in the story, and the reality of the main characters complete isolation. Faulkner reveals how difficult it can be to see the past and the present clearly and honestly by depicting memory as flawed and subjective. This difficulty is part of why the main character goes insane, or so it certa