Examples Of Motivational Appeal In A Rose For Emily

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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story that describes the oppression of women from male authority. Emily the protagonist demonstrates her abilities as a young women to set an example by challenging the norms of her own strict community. Through this Emily establishes respect among her fellow community members, but at the same time she is shamed for not following the social norms such as the submission to male authority. This story is told in a feminist perspective from the subject position of a man to give the significance of women empowerment and the goodness of their nature. Despite what women went through, Faulkner shames the male gender for oppression women. However, in today 's world women have a choice to submit themselves …show more content…

The writer lacks a motivational appeal for readers to engage in feminism because he criticises the male gender. When Emily killed Homer it discourages men and the male audience from reading the literary piece about issues regarding women 's rights. If the writer only spoke on the importance of feminism he would lose readers. In addition, from a personal perspective regarding the author 's life, his robust intentions to write this piece emerged from his personal emotions about women in the social system of patriarchy. Emily bound by love which caused her to stay with Homer 's corpse. This image portrays how the idea of love can bound women to the subjection of male authority in even in death. This piece exemplifies the author 's motivational appeal to prevent the perpetuating cycle of masculine oppression, giving the female audience …show more content…

Lunsford they are many fallacies presented in various reading texts that allows readers to question the writer’s ideas. There is only one main logical or fallacy presented in this story which is Not Sequitur. Non sequitur is an argument that has various claims but does not make the logical connection with facts or logical reason (Lunsford, Pg.85). To give an example of non sequitur Faulkner claims that women are oppressed by the male gender because of social norms. The reason for women being oppressed is the male gender and the warrant is social norms of the past. For it to be sequitur the statement must have something that helps reader understand the writer 's point of view. Somebody can counter argue Faulkner and say “maybe women enjoy being under male authority because of values implement in them at a young age”. Therefore Faulkner claim of women are oppressed is non sequitur because it does not stand as a strong statement and it’s vague because the reason doesn’t connect

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