A religious hypocrisy, Name of The Rose was directed by Jean Jacques Annaud and produced by 20th Century Fox. The main characters are Brother William of Baskerville and, his novice, Adso. The other characters are the Abbott, a peasant girl, Bernado Gui, Salvatore, and Remigo. The story is set in 1327 in a dark gloomy abbey in northern Italy. The movie is set around the belief that the devil has taken over the abbey. Adso, the novice to the main character, narrates the story. Monks are dying and there is no explanation for their death. All of the men have been found dead and their index fingers and tongues have been stained with ink. Adso, has come along to help William but finds himself questioning his own beliefs. After separating from William he is seduced by the peasant girl and has sex with her. Continuing to question his way of life he reconnects with William. Brother William is putting together the pieces and comes close to solving the mystery but is denied assess, by the librarian, to the secret room in the library. William goes to the Abbott with his findings and asks permission to enter the library. After being denied by him also, William is informed that is has been relieved of his duties. Bernado Gui will be arriving soon and taking over. There is an unpleasant past between William and Bernado. As Bernado goes about his trials, believing witchcraft is to blame he sentences three innocent people to burn; meanwhile, Brother William and saying that another will be found and he too will have burnt finger. During the burnings another body is found and Brother William sneaks away to enter the library. While he is there he finds the blind monk lacing the pages of the book with arsenic. Upon further investigation William finds out the book is the 2nd Book of Poetics by Aristotle. The monk nocks over the torch and sets the library on fire. William tells Adso to get out. William saves as many books as possible and escapes. Once he gets out him and Adso leave the abbey. On the way home Adso comes in contact with the peasant girl and is tossed between her and monk life. He leaves her behind and keeps traveling with William.
My reaction to Alice Walkers piece ARoseLily@ was quite interesting and confusing. Interesting in the way she wrote the wedding ceremony different from the main story. Confusing because you, the reader, have to read really carefully to see what the plot was. Overall, once I got the hang of reading her style it became clear to me how she felt and what the story was that she was trying to introduce. There was definitely a lot of symbolism in the story. First of all, the name A Roselily @ means A beauty and perfection, happiness and grace and lily means purity, and guiltless@(Symbolism in literature pg.3)
Back in the day when I was very little, I remember that my dad used to take care of me. He would never let me run around the house when glass could off break and hurt me. As I kept growing up my father started to give more freedom but also gave me more responsibilities; like he wanted me to do the chores of the house, not all of them but some. I knew they were not mine to do but I still help. When I went off to college and I had to do all by myself, I realize that my father did good on making me do my laundry, chores and etc., when I was young. Besides I knew that I had to do my chores for me to go out with friends. Although I had this kind of responsibilities at a young age I can say that it helped in life. But because some parents overprotective their children and they are not exposing to real life, children might not know how to function in society when their parents die.
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily" was originally published April 30, 1930 in an issue of Forum. It was his first short story to be published in a major magazine. "A Rose for Emily" is the story of an abnormal older woman, Emily Grierson. The unnamed narrator who of which sounds like the town speaking (certainly does not sound like any certain individual)really details the bizarre circumstances of Emily's life and her unusual relationships between her father, lover, and the whole town of Jefferson, and the horrible secrets she is hiding. Most readers have found this story to be the most understandable by Faulkner, and it is favored for its gruesome ending. Faulkner uses Flashback, Foreshadowing and suspense to symbolize and show the story's Tragedy, Pride, and loneliness.
Faulkner guides us through his short story “A Rose for Miss Emily”, with his own unique form of third person limited narration. This narration allows the audience to follow the opinions of the narrator and develop the mindset the author desires his audience to have. Specifically, William’s choice to begin the story with the description of Emily’s funeral gives the reader a sort of inherent sympathy for Miss Emily, which we, the readers, naturally carry through the story as we build our opinion of Emily.
Alice Walker’s “Roselily”, when first read considered why she decided to use third person. Especially when the story is in such a private line of thought, but then after my second time reading the story I decided that Roselily would not be a strong enough woman to speak about the social injustices that have happened to her. One key part of the story is her new life she will be facing after she is married in Chicago, while comparing it with her old life she is leaving in Mississippi. In Chicago she will no longer have a job, but instead be a homemaker where she will be responsible for the children and home. Also, in Chicago she will become a Muslim because it is what her new husband will want her to be, but back in Mississippi she was of the Christian faith. One of the more positive outcomes of her marriage is that she will go from extreme poverty, to not having to worry about money on a day to day basis.
The protagonist of this story is Miss Emily Grierson, an old maid spinster without family who becomes a “tradition” and a “sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (Faulkner 299). The story begins with the death of Miss Emily, so I will rearrange my analysis of the character to begin with what we first know about Miss Emily.
Changing religion is one of the first things that is discussed. After the initial set up of the story Roselily thinks of “ropes, chains, handcuffs, his religion.” She is a Christian and he is Muslim. After they are married she will convert into a Muslim because that is what her husband wants her to be. She knows that things will be very different as a Muslim; there will be very strict rules that she will have to follow. She gives an example of this when she says “His place of worship. Where will she be required to sit apart with covered head”. This seems scary to her because she begins to feel the pressure of the marriage building; she begins to think if she wants a life like that.
In the late 1400’s the House of York fought the House of Lancaster for the English crown. Because Lancaster’s heraldic badge
Rose Madder The setting of Rose Madder begins in a city called Portside, but it does not say which state. Rose then rides a bus 800 miles to some large mid-western city. With some of the details in the story and the dialect, a good guess of the time era is anywhere from the 1980s to the late 1990s. The characters in Rose Madder are Rose McClendon Daniels, a woman who was married and abused by her husband for nearly 14 years, and Norman Daniels, a crazy cop who is in pursuit of his wife Rosie.
In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Miss Emily Grierson is a lonely old woman, living a life void of all love and affection; although the rose only directly appears in the title, the rose surfaces throughout the story as a symbol. In contemporary times, the rose also symbolizes emotions like love and friendship. The rose symbolizes dreams of romances and lovers. These dreams belong to women, who like Emily Grierson, have yet to experience true love for themselves.
“Have not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” (Mabillard 1). The Wars of the Roses was a furnace that was boiling, it caused many changes for England from rebellions and overthrowing multiple kings and queens, to new dynasties and causing England to change for the better with ambition and thus becoming what it is today.
The theme of "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner is that people should let go of the past, moving on with the present so that they can prepare to welcome their future. Emily was the proof of a person who always lived on the shadow of the past; she clung into it and was afraid of changing. The first evident that shows to the readers right on the description of Grierson's house "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." The society was changing every minutes but still, Emily's house was still remained like a symbol of seventieth century. The second evident show in the first flashback of the story, the event that Miss Emily declined to pay taxes. In her mind, her family was a powerful family and they didn't have to pay any taxes in the town of Jefferson. She even didn't believe the sheriff in front of her is the "real" sheriff, so that she talked to him as talk to the Colonel who has died for almost ten years "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson." Third evident was the fact that Miss Emily had kept her father's death body inside the house and didn't allow burying him. She has lived under his control for so long, now all of sudden he left her, she was left all by herself, she felt lost and alone, so that she wants to keep him with her in order to think he's still living with her and continued controlling her life. The fourth evident and also the most interesting of this story, the discovery of Homer Barron's skeleton in the secret room. The arrangement inside the room showing obviously that Miss Emily has slept with the death body day by day, until all remained later was just a skeleton, she's still sleeping with it, clutching on it every night. The action of killing Homer Barron can be understood that Miss Emily was afraid that he would leave her, afraid of letting him go, so she decided to kill him, so that she doesn't have to afraid of losing him, of changing, Homer Barron would still stay with her forever.
William Blake's The Sick Rose. "The sick rose" is a very ambiguous poem and open to several interpretations, Blake uses lots of imagery and. effective metaphors. My first impression of the poem was that it?s very negative and includes elements of destruction.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish writer whose work was simply influenced by the country of Ireland and it 's ancient legends. He was very involved in Ireland and had a connection to the country that not many had, which created a distinction between his work and others. Yeats was also involved in fighting for an Irish free-state, which is where he really got to show his Irish nationalism. Simply due to his Irish identity and involvement in Irish politics, William Butler Yeats ' work was shaped by his Irish environment and tradition.
The Name of the Rose, written by Umberto Eco, deals with a series of mysterious murders that take place in 1327, in a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy. The protagonist, William of Baskerville, along with his novice Adso of Melk, tries to solve this mystery. The former possesses an exceptional ability in logical reasoning and with his talent, he is able to collect defining and critical evidences that ultimately enables him to resolve the horrifying enigma.