A Rose Will Never Bloom: Doomed Tragedy of Miss Emily

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10.2991/ichssr-16.2016.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Doomed, tragedy, female

Abstract

In "A Rose for Emily", Miss Emily Grierson was a morbid woman living in isolation because of the lifelong persecution of patriarchy, family, tradition, and Puritanism. Moreover, she became the monument of her era, and her death signified the fallen monument (Faulkner) and the end of aristocratic era. All her life, Miss Emily could not do anything at her own will, and it seems everyone would stand out to interfere with her when she was doing something inconsistent with the traditions. It is not surprising that such a woman under these strong controls and restrictions would become so morbid that she refused her father's death, killed her lover, and even slept with the corpse to affirm her victory over the earthiness. Miss Emily was the victim of the tradition and society and her life was doomed to be tragic.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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