“The Most Dangerous Game” and “A Rose for Emily” both show the flaws and dangers in society. Modernism is a literary style that emerged after WWII. It started in Europe then went into America in the late 1920’s, it shows the universal truth, trust in authorities fading, reaction to war, and it questions humanity. “The Most Dangerous Game” was written in 1924, and “A Rose for Emily” was written in 1930, both very close to the start of modernism. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford is involved in a yacht wreck and comes to an island where her realizes the dangers of the outside world. He meets General Zaroff a man who hunts humans and Rainsford has to fight for his life. This story shows perfect examples of modernism. The …show more content…
story “A Rose for Emily” shows Emily and small town lady who grows up being controlled her whole life by her father. Her father dies and she meets Homer who disappears for over forty years. Finally when Emily does they find Homer’s dead body, and a pillow with an indent and a strand of gray hair on it. This story has modernism examples but does not have as much modernism as “The Most Dangerous Game.” Both of these stories can be proved modernism, “The Most Dangerous “Game” and “A Rose for Emily” have qualities of modernism like universal truths, trust in authorities fading, and an ambiguous ending. “The Most Dangerous Game” and “A Rose for Emily” both reveal universal truths. In “The Most Dangerous Game” it reveals that after the war there are still very evil places and people that exist. In “A Rose for Emily” it reveals that there are also very evil people that exist but not so much places. An example from “The Most Dangerous Game” is when Rainsford says “But you can’t mean” this is when Rainsford finds out how evil General Zaroff is. In “A Rose For Emily” when it says “Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as of one of an idol.” This makes it seem like Emily is guarding something. Both of these sentences prove that there are still evil people in the universe. “The Most Dangerous Game” takes place on a caribbean island, but “A Rose for Emily” takes place in a small town. In the “Most Dangerous Game” it says “The old charts call it Ship-Trap Island.” This line from the story is talking about the island that Zaroff runs, the name “Ship-Trap Island hints that the whole island is an evil place if ships are trying to avoid it. In “A Rose for Emily” it says “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral. This example proves that not the whole town is evil, just Emily. “The Most Dangerous Game” has a very dangerous and evil setting, but “A Rose for Emily” is just a normal town. Another characteristic of modernism is trust in authority fading, “The most Dangerous Game” has a general who starts off acting trustworthy but ends up not being trustworthy at all.
“A Rose for Emily” has trust in authority fading in a different way than “The Most Dangerous Game.” It has Emily being the untrustworthy person. In the “Most Dangerous Game” Zaroff says “I was about to have dinner when you came. I'll wait for you. You’ll find that my clothes will fit you, I think.” This gives Rainsford the idea that Zaroff is a trustworthy person. But when Rainsford says “But you can’t mean-” all of his trust he had for Zaroff goes away very quickly. In “A Rose for Emily” Emily goes to get a very deadly poison, she says “I want the best you have. I don’t care what kind.” Then randomly Homer disappeared, this makes Emily seem like a very untrustworthy suspicious person. Both of these examples show that there are untrustworthy authorities, but “A Rose for Emily” has a different figure being …show more content…
untrustworthy. Both “A Rose for Emily” and “The Most Dangerous Game” have a very ambiguous endings.
In “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford says “I am still a beast at bay.” “Get ready, General Zaroff.” The very last sentence of the story says “He never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.” The end of this story leaves the reader with the thoughts of what might have happened to Rainsford. In “A Rose for Emily” it leaves the reader also thinking of what really happened. Near the end of the story it says “The man himself lay in the bed.” Though we can not be completely sure it is Homer, it is most likely him. At the very end of the story it says “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. This leaves the reader thinking that Emily was sleeping with the dead body. Both of the stories leave you thinking of what really happened, but “A Rose for Emily” has an ending that gives you a better clue of what actually
happened. Both of these stories have universal truths, trust in authorities fading, and an ambiguous ending, which all prove the stories are modernism. Emily in “A Rose for Emily” and General Zaroff in “The Most Dangerous Game’’ are very evil people. Emily and the General are also untrustworthy figures. Finally both of the the stories have ending that leave you thinking of what really happened. “The Most Dangerous Game” and “A Rose for Emily” have very similar characteristics but each have a different way to use the modernist characteristics.
The most insane people are the ones who were kept sane the longest. In the stories “ A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “ Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl the women are both completely insane. They both kill the ones they love because they don’t want them to leave. Although Mary and Emily both have different stragities of killing them. They are both very sneaky about hiding it up and how they get away with it.
“The swimmer” and “A Rose for Emily” both show the same theme in the way that they both show that the characters cannot face the past. Emily will not face the truth, the fact that her father died. Neddy drinks because he cannot face the past. The act of drinking takes his mind off of the pains he dealt with in the past.
In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, he uses several literary devices to keep the reader interested. During Rainsfords journey to and through the island of General Zaroff he partakes in an adventurous journey filled with mystery, suspense, and dilemma. These devices are used to keep the reader interested throughout the story.
A rose for Emily and Lamb to The Slaughter are both books about two females getting rejected to the men they love, and the way they get revenge was by killing them. Emily was a shy type of person but she came from a family that are known to be crazy and do crazy things. She fell in love with Mr. Grierson she met when he was doing construction work next to her house. Eventually she married him but not knowing that he is more attracted to men and for that reason she killed him. Mary was in a situation where her husband Patrick did love her but he decided he wanted to leave her for another woman when Mary was pregnant with his baby. This leading up to her killing over the anger she had towards him. The purpose of this is because both females have had the feeling of rejection, and revenge. Emily’s husband was attracted to other men which made her feel rejected because she knew she wasn’t going to be love by Mr. Grierson as much since he doesn’t find her attractive. For Mary, her husband Patrick did love but he wanted to leave her for another woman because he didn’t love her anymore.
In "A Rose for Emily" and "Barn Burning," William Faulkner creates two characters worthy of comparison. Emily Grierson, a recluse from Jefferson, Mississippi, is an important figure in the town, despite spending most of her life in seclusion. On the contrary, Abner Snopes is a loud, fiery-tempered man that most people tend to avoid. If these characters are judged by reputation and outward appearance only, the conclusion would be that Emily Grierson and Abner Snopes are complete opposites. However, despite the external differences, these two characters have surprisingly similar personalities.
William Faulkner has written some of the most unique novels and short stories of any author, and, to this day, his stories continue to be enjoyed by many. Both “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily” tell about the life of southern people and their struggles with society, but Faulkner used the dramatic settings of these two stories to create a mood unlike any other and make the audience feel like they too were a part of these southern towns. These two stories have many similarities in there setting, but they also have many differences to that make them unique and interesting.
In the short stories “A Rose For Emily,” by William Faulkner and “The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson both authors create similar characters and settings that illustrate daring images of evil. Both Emily Grierson and Adela Strangeworth are women who share similar characteristics yet pose completely different motives. Their stories take place in close-knit towns, which play essential roles in their motives for evil. Emily Grierson and Adela Strangeworth demonstrate similarities and differences that develop their actions, revealing the possibility of evil within them.
Bad choices are made every day by everybody. Those bad choices could lead to consequences that are going to bother a person for a long time. Even more, that person may try various ways to correct that error. The intention is good, but things can go even worse if the effort is based on unrealistic fantasies. This effort is presented as a part of modernist ideas. Modernist writers dramatize this effort through the tragic outcomes of the characters. Three modernist pieces, A Street Car Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, The Great Gatsby, all of them sent out a message to the audience, the loss of past and how it cannot be recovered. Each piece features a character who lost hope, strived to recover the hope, and ended with a tragic outcome. A Street Car Named Desire featured Blanche; Blanche spent her whole life trying to get some attentions. Death of a Salesman featured Willy; Willy spent his whole life trying to apply the idea “Be Well Liked.” The Great Gatsby featured Jay Gatsby; Gatsby spent his whole life trying to win back Daisy. All of those characters ended with tragic outcome. Blanche was sent to asylum by her own sister. Willy committed suicide after felt humiliated by his sons. Gatsby was murdered with a gunshot planned by Tom Buchanan. Blanche, Willy, and Gatsby’s tragic fates are caused by their false beliefs about life, which are proven wrong by the contradictions between the reality and the illusion.
In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner both main characters are portrayed as irrational and are isolated from reality. The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” murders an elderly man, as he is fearful of the man’s eye. Emily Grierson in “A Rose for Emily” lives secluded from society, until she marries a man, Homer. She ultimately kills Homer in his bed and leaves his body to decompose for many years. Both the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Emily Grierson in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” deny reality so vehemently that they isolate themselves from reality. Their isolation and denial of reality cause both to commit murder.
This deprivation of love led them to cling to anyone that made them think they were being loved. In A Rose for Emily and Tell-Tale Heart, a character murders someone who they love. The two works, share similarities and differences when it comes to the characters, the narratives, point of view and reason for killing a loved one. Miss Emily, in A Rose for Emily and the main character of Tell-Tale Heart, who will be referred to as The Narrator, both of the characters murder a loved one. Miss Emily killed her lover, Homer Barron, with arsenic that she purchased from her local druggist.
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” are two short stories that incorporate multiple similarities and differences. Both stories’ main characters are females who are isolated from the world by male figures and are eventually driven to insanity. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the unidentified narrator moves to a secluded area with her husband and sister-in-law in hopes to overcome her illness. In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily’s father keeps Emily sheltered from the world and when he dies, she is left with nothing. Both stories have many similarities and differences pertaining to the setting, characterization, symbolism, and their isolation from the world by dominant male figures, which leads them to insanity.
In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” and Sherwood Anderson’s “Hands,” both authors present main characters who isolate themselves after they are treated as objects of desire. In Faulkner’s work, Miss Emily is an outsider because she is dehumanized after becoming a victim of incest. Similarly, in Anderson’s work, Wing Biddlebadum is also dehumanized when he is beaten up by the town’s people after being accused of child molestation. In this way, both characters are outsiders in their haven because they are deprived of humane treatment.
As Faulkner begins “A Rose for Emily” with death of Emily, he both immediately and intentionally obscures the chronology of the short story to create a level of distance between the reader and the story and to capture the reader’s attention. Typically, the reader builds a relationship with each character in the story because the reader goes on a journey with the character. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner “weaves together the events of Emily’s life” is no particular order disrupting the journey for the reader (Burg, Boyle and Lang 378). Instead, Faulkner creates a mandatory alternate route for the reader. He “sends the reader on a dizzying voyage by referring to specific moments in time that have no central referent, and thus the weaves the past into the present, the present into the past. “Since the reader is denied this connection with the characters, the na...
“A Rose for Emily” reads like a sad and tragic biography set in the nineteenth century. The narrator, who speaks as one representing the story from the town’s point of view, begins by narrating Emily’s funeral. As the story unfolds, the reader is taken through a grim sequence of events, some of which only make sense in retrospect upon reaching the end of the story. The narrator begins then to narrate her background since her father’s death. Emily’s father is cast as a protective figure who turns away any male suitors and keeps his daughter away from the townsfolk. When he dies, Emily refrains from acknowledging his death and for three days refuses to let his body out of the house. Eventually she breaks
In "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner's use of setting and characterization foreshadows and builds up to the climax of the story. His use of metaphors prepares the reader for the bittersweet ending. A theme of respectability and the loss of, is threaded throughout the story. Appropriately, the story begins with death, flashes back to the past and hints towards the demise of a woman and the traditions of the past she personifies. Faulkner has carefully crafted a multi-layered masterpiece, and he uses setting, characterization, and theme to move it along.