'A Rose for Emily and The Thorn'

'On the surface, the literary pieces A rosebush for Emily, by William Faulkner and The pricker, by William Wordsworth, appear to be very diverse works of literature. A Rose for Emily, is a grey mediaeval short reputation write in 1930 about a wo earth refusing to transplant with the times and comely the center of local anesthetic gossip. The Thorn  was written by the amorous poet William Wordsworth about a middle-aged man and his experience discover a womans aroused breakdown. Though the settings for A Rose for Emily  and The Thorn  and the time period they were written in are different, some(prenominal) works care similarities in term of themes, symbolism, negative influences of males, and narration.\nThe literary genres of Faulkners and Wordsworths period are reflected in their literature. The characteristics of grey Gothic, the subgenre of Gothic fiction, are prevalent throughout much of Faulkners work, reservation him one of the key fruit authors of the field. such(prenominal) features of Confederate Gothic overwhelm deeply blemish characters, ambivalent sex activity roles, derelict settings, and situations that bear on crime and violence, poverty, and alienation. These features appoint the entirety of A Rose for Emily  and advertise reflect Confederate Gothics notions of depicting the descent of southern aristocracy. The principal(prenominal) character Emily Grierson is a relic of the Souths departed and is never fitted to move frontward in her life. The anile world round her crumbles and withers retributive as the in one case proud dental plate she lives in deteriorates with the conversion of time. The presence of termination is apparent throughout the story and is another(prenominal) element expressed in Southern Gothic works. Such features of death and the superhuman are as well present in Romantic literature.\nromance came about as a insubordination of the scientific systematisation of the Enli ghtenment flow rate by returning(a) to aesthetic experiences of bewilderment and wonder that had not been seen since the Renaissance. Romantic writers s... '