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Fighting for Existence: A lost culture
Before President Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Union’s victory over the confederate states in a bloody civil war that lasted from 1861 to 1865, the southern states of the United States enjoyed a particularly different way of life. ... With the abolishment of slavery the South faced a tremendous culture shock destroying the traditions of antiquity and forcing Southern culture to acclimate itself with the more tolerant and continually changing times. ... It would appear that this metaphor has connotations that appeal to the idea of a Southern Bell, suggesting to the reader a theme of lost culture. Faulkner’s devout focus in describing Emily and her house as monuments in the very beginning of the story convey the theme of a dying aristocratic culture resisting extinction with a powerful will to hold on to the past. ...
The ideology and behavior of certain characters in Faulkner’s story are used to display a transformation in southern culture during the lifetime of Emily Grierson. ... His decision to exclude Emily from paying taxes out of sympathy, display a cultural tradition that is eroded from existence over time “Only a man of his generation and thought could have invented it. ... One must infer from such a comparison; the strong resentment held by Faulkner for those responsible for destroying the unique southern culture existing prior to the civil war. ...
Homer Brown, a day laboring Northerner, plays a major role in Faulkner’s story in that he represents the intrusions of both culture and generation that ultimately deprive the South of its old way of life. ... ” The murder of Homer Brown can be viewed as both a triumph over the North’s oppression, as well as a battle against a younger generation pushing an old southern culture out of existence.
Approximate Word count = 1364
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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