4. An Analysis of the Origin of Emily’s Tragedy
4.1 Southern Complex and Social Condition in History
Emily’s tragic life has its deep historical and cultural roots, during the United States new and old replace in particular. Due to the special geographical difference Gender and cultural identity, the American South and the North have different cultures and religious traditions. Northern barren en land and other natural conditions sparked Northern people keen interest in physics and science, pragmatism occupied mainstream position in the north. In contrast, most Southerners believed in religious ritual faithful. While all southerners are indulging in such a sunshine, joy the pastoral life, enjoy the distinguished identity and a prosperous life, the impact of the Civil War defeat non-suspect almost devastating. The war destroyed the southern survival of slavery. With the destruction of tradition economic system is next tradition life of way, culture and ideology of collapse. After devouring ruthless economics system by the new north, they are still stubbornly live in within their own fantasy of Eden, lofty superiority. Let them to contempt northerners humble origins, regarding them as a “foolish and misery person.” It is the last descendant of the family to stick to the typical southern complex of Emily and her father as the Gleason. They dare not to face reality, only with southern aristocratic to its former glory to numb themselves and maintain their own aristocratic image. “Tradition culture and American Puritanism is important part of southern culture. Its core content is Patriarchy, Racism and Womanhood Righteousness.” It is this deep-root ideological control of the entire relationship and codes of conduct in the south, but also provides for such social environmental of men and women of affiliation and status. For a real “Southern Belle” has been hailed as a pure and noble saint. The importance of women’s clean infidelity and innocent is far more than their lives. Let me to toast that we are living in the south of these lovely women. They like the crystal clear water as pure innocence, like an ice crystal as a stern. We are willing to swear their purity and chastity throw the head shed blood”. Therefore, a woman born in the south
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will lose her as a people should enjoy the right to the free of development. They must obey the man for the “Southern Belle’’ standards to shape themselves. Their actually a natural process of growing female personality constantly oppressed and “Southern Fang Ladies” personality continue to strengthen the process. Women are a no-self I will, self-deter monition and self-authority behavior embodied materialized Vassal.” In this Puritanism bondage, southern women to compliance from the four natures: piety, obedience, housekeeping, and perfect. In the “ladies wind under the scope” of the constraints, women must suppress their nature, observe women road to comply with the so-called good match thinking. This is Emily and “Yankees”, the most fundamental social conditions causes lover tragedy of love. And it is such a tradition ideology, women created her concept of Miss Emily twisted personality and abnormal inner world.
4.2 Cruel Oppress Under Father Control
After the Civil War, Lincoln realized the southern government’s rule. After that, the penetration of the northern industrial civilization makes the entire society deeply steeped in the romanticism which was deepened, but the former glory and ancient beauty has becoming a thing of the past. Faced with these threats something different with bowing in front of force is that they still exhibit their arrogance and nostalgia for the glory. There is no doubt that the Emily’s father is householder in Greer Johnson family, Emily’s father is the representative in aristocracy groups. Yet this arrogant attitude that makes her from a white girl into a zombie spinster. So what makes Emily become so miserable, patriarchal oppression is one of the most important reasons? Specifically in the following areas:
First, he is severely harsh. He has always been strict to young Emily. Day after day she is instilled a social obligation to Greer Johnson family, the father holding image-handed whip awesome and always lofty. Emily is growing in this strict regulation and control of high pressure. Second, he is autocratic selfish. His hope and code of
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conduct her daughter life goals. He took a lot of things belong to her, such as her happiness. When Emily grown up, she married with other people, his father was away all suitors who want to date with Emily. Aristocratic identity even has fallen, or a time to resist the happy life out of door. It seems these suitors in his father is age aren’t cover with, because the flat background and black complexion and so on. All these factors make these people in inferior social and position. Meanwhile the noble identity need someone to inherit, his father simply do not want to let Emily to leave this building. Emily’s father autocratic makes her happiness, freedom and pursue all become private property. Third, the huge of patriarchal let Emily have a great impact of dependence on her father’s silhouette in front legs splayed back to Emily, holding a root whip, a back door open just the two of them lived embedded figure depiction Emily wrote implies a life in the shadow of his father. Since his father is dead, Emily simply overwhelmed and can’t accept his father’s death. She did not know where to go in the future, and it is in this case, the Emily gradually lost the protection and become the talk of the town as a resident gossip, critical and focus vision deteriorated. Emily’s situation is nothing to rely on.
From the novel, we can feel the word of “father” is like an invisible and giant net which make Emily inexorably trapped in the dilapidated house that symbolized the power of the southern aristocracy. Without freedom, no power of “father” is obvious. In the article, Miss Emily had never been mentioned his mother, even if it is introduced to the reader that why Emily’s mother was dead, when she has so young, and Miss Emily’s dependence his father is because of the lack of maternal love and father since childhood professionals horizontal control.
About Emily on the relationship with his father, the second chapter of the novel depicts such a picture: “For a long time, we have been watching this family as a picture of the characters: slim figure, dressed in white Emily small sister standing in the back, legs splayed her father’s silhouette in front, holding a root whip, a back door open just embedded live their body shadow. From this description, we can see that the father who holding whip has a strict social hierarchy, it seems he is getting rid of it. There are
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getting rid of those close her daughter and people he thought that is not good enough. Although he believed that everyone is not good enough her daughter who has south of noble descent in the town. And he is back to Emily, her daughter refused to meet the relative, without communication face to face, understanding her true inner thoughts and willing. Because lack of the communication with her daughter, the overbearing behavior that cut off all of possible of contacting with the outside. Father in professionals system cruelly deprived of a stubborn young woman heated love for life, and the normal rights of a longing for better life. Her father always dominated Emily in real life and the spiritual world. When her father was alive, Emily is in the flower of age. As a young girl, she did not realize her father and her stifle freedom of thought actually fuse imprison her in tragic fate. Her lifetime is trapped in the old house which is a symbol of the south’s prestige and dignity. Miss Emily heart longing for romantic life gradually withered.
4.3 A Screwy Psychology of Emily
Faulkner pointed out that Emily is not be avoided a tragedy, nothing can be stop it. Mentioned in the novel: “Miss Emily was alive, she was a traditional incarnation and obligation symbol, also the objection of people concern.’’ As a southern aristocracy representative, Miss Emily’s blood retains the lofty and aloof of unique southern aristocrat. This is reason why Emily’s father died in a non-behaved significantly. After her father died, Emily realized that he had to face the reality alone of the outside world. With the outside world contacts with the town residents, it promotes to intensify of conflict. In Emily’s ribs, the noble sense of superiority and aristocratic lady that let her pity for town residents Benjamin and regret seen as a shameful thing. So she gets rid of his father designed of the horizontal control and she refused to pay for it, she ignored the letters of the municipal tax reminder. When his father died in the summer day, townspeople saw to her again in the town. She was cut her hair that hair color like an angle church on tinted windows. There are a few point pathos and solemnity. Bobbed
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hair seems to imply that Miss Emily has faced to break out the past life, it courage her to pursuit own happiness. So she was desperate to put aside the shackles of her long-south of the old traditions, to abandon the world of gossip, she is fanatical dedication Yankees get a daily wages of love. Just when we all thought it would be a turning point in life of Emily, finally the Yankees Home lost, and Miss Emily front door shut up again. Emily threw himself into this not being optimistic feeling of people, she found her boyfriend like man, he cannot rely on lifetime shoulder, at this moment, Emily’s personality and psychological has been completed full twisting deformity. In order to retain his lover, she brutally poisoned lover and long-term sleep with corpse lovers. In a love, Emily got in return that she chose to use such a way hairy bone intimidating way to homage to her lover of this life only once. This novel ended with the death of death began at the same time , the surface narrative form was expressed its profound theme, a symbol of the United States south of the country and the decline of the decline of the old tradition of growing irreparable destruction. In the deep under the double oppression engraved historical and cultural traditions. In patriarchy, Emily most could not get rid of the fate of the tragedy. Her tragic fate is dead. Emily’s death metaphor old southern traditions, value concept, lifestyle completely destroyed and disappeared. It is like a monument slump, in the beginning of the article was described. In Miss Emily’s world, the whole town holds a funeral for her, because a monument is to fall. Through the “A Rose for Emily,” we can find that patriarchal repression, attention, and love failure from town resident makes Emily ultimately can’t have the happiness. So went to the road the serial killer. This may allow us to see the facts that among the decades after Civil War, the North- South difference cannot be devoid in the short term, on behalf of the advanced civilization transformation to the southern aristocracy have to go through the throes of a long period. Rose is faded, Emily does not own love likes rose, but fortunately she was dedicated to the rose the author sanded to her. As the sole survivor of a southern family, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, a sort hereditary obligation upon the town. Faulkner gave our readers the impression of endless thought and imagination.
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