Formalist criticism a rose for emily

1. FORMALIST CRITICISM
A ROSE FOR EMILY
By
William Faulkner

2. • Biography of William Faulkner
American writer William Faulkner was born in New
Albany, Mississippi, in 1897. Much of his early work
was poetry, but he became famous for his novels set
in the American South, He died on July 6, 1962

3. • About The Criticism
• Formalist Ctiticism
• Determine the form, structure and, literay devices
used in the text.
• Don’t check the biographical, social and, historical
background of the author to unlock the meaning of the
text.
• Including character, figures of speech, Imagery, plot,
point of view, setting, and theme.

5. • Title : A Rose for Emily
• The title mention an object. A rose as a flower that is
presented for Emily as a lady who live in white
background in Jeffersons. It contains an object that
represented the main character of Miss Emily
Grierson.

6. POINT OF VIEW
• Omniscient Point of View
• The narrator used first person point of view that used
‘we’, The narrator’s point of view is omniscient that
know everything in the story.
• The quotation :
• And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of
Miss Emily for some time.

7. Third person point of view
• Miss Emily
• Homer Baron
• Tobe
• Judge Steven
• City Authorities
• Ladies
• Some men
• Miss Emily’s father
• The people/citizen
• The labourer

8. Third person point of view
• Miss Emiliy
• The quotation :
• She told them that her father was not dead. She did
that for three days, ......................
• Homer Baron
• The quotation :
• ........ because Homer himself had remarked--he liked
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger
men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man

9. • Tobe (Miss Emily’s servant)
• The quotation :
• ............... He walked right through the house and out
the back and was not seen again
• Two female cousins of Miss Emily
• The quotation :
• They held the funeral on the second day, with the
town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of
bought flowers

10. • City Authorities
• The quotation :
• On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice.
February came, and there was no reply
• The ladies
• The quotation :
• so they were not surprised when the smell developed
• Some men
• The quotation :
• They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there,
and in all the outbuildings

11. • The People
• The Quotation :
• At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone,
and a pauper, she had become humanized
• The labor of paving the sidewalks
• The Quotation :
• The town had just let the contracts for paving the
sidewalks, and in the summer after her father's
death they began the work

12. • Judge Steven
• The Quotation :
• "I'm sure that won't be necessary," Judge Stevens
said. "It's probably just a snake or a rat that nigger
of hers killed in the yard. I'll speak to him about it.“
• Miss Emily’s Father
• The quotation :
• We remembered all the young men her father had
driven away, and we knew that with nothing left

13. Dramatic Conflict
• Social conflict between Miss Emily and City
Authorities
• Her voice was dry and cold. "I have no taxes in
Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me.
........................
• I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro
appeared. "Show these gentlemen out.“
• Social conflict between Judge Steven and citizen
• The next day he received two more complaints, one
from a man who came in diffident deprecation. "We
really must do something about it, Judge.

14. Dramatic Conflict
• The internal conflict of Miss Emily
• After her father's death she went out very little; after
her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at
all.
• ..............Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed
as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She
told them that her father was not dead
• She carried her head high enough--even when we
believed that she was fallen. ......................

15. Theme
• Obsessive
• Miss Emily is really worried to lose his soulmate
Homer Baron. So she poisoned Homer with
arsenic and he was killed. She took her dead
body in to her room and slept with him until
almost 40 years.

16. Plot
• Implausible : fantastic plots that are not
acceptable in the everyday sense of reality
• Start :
• Firstly it was explained when Miss Emily died in the
seventy fourth years old
• Then the narrator retold Miss Emily’s past life when
she was young.
• Miss Emily was a daughter from Griersons that was
well-known as a respectable woman that lived in
Jeffersons.

17. Plot
• Introduction of conflict :
• It was told after Miss Emily’s father died she became
very introvert. She just lived with her servant , Tobe.
• Then she chose to hide herself inside her house .
• She also ignored to pay taxes until she died.
• Two years later she met Homer Baron, a northener
labourer from construction company.
• From the first time they met, Miss Emily loved him
• Homer Baron interested with her too,but it did not
mean he loved her.

18. Plot
• Rising Action :
• Homer Baron was not a married man
• It made Miss Emily despair, but she could not leave
Homer
• Then she went in to a druggiest and bought arsenic.
• In the evening Homer and Miss Emily had dinner in her
house.
• Then the next day the citizen complained about odor
smell from Miss Emily’s house
• The days later there were some men who spread lime
into Miss Emily’s yard.
• A few weeks later the smeel lost.
• 40 years later Miss Emily died.

19. Plot
• Climax, Falling Action and Ending :
• The second day after Miss Emily died, her two cousins
entered her room.
• They were very surprised after seeing a man skeleton
layed on Miss Emily bed.
• Thay twice surprised when they found a long gray hair layed
on that pilow behind the skeleton.
• It meant Homer Baron was killed by Miss Emily with arsenic
and then she brought Homer Baron into her room and slept
with dead body until she dead almost in 40 years.
• Whereas her servant ‘Tobe’ suddenly went away after Miss
Emily dead and no one knew and saw where he gone.

20. Characterization
• Miss Emily : a respected woman, well-known,
charming, interesting, introvert, and stubborn.
• The quotation :
• Miss Emily is a slender figure in white in the background,
.........
• She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though
thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a
face.......
• After her father's death she went out very little; after her
sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all
• Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright
torso motionless as that of an idol

21. Characterization
• Homer Baron : interesting, easy-going,
popular, and charming.
• The quotation :
• Homer Barron, a Yankee--a big, dark, ready man,
with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face
• Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere
about the square, Homer Barron would be in the
center of the group

22. Characterization
• Tobe (the servant) : he is loyal to Miss Emily,
he was quite silent and mysterious.
• The quotation :
• and the only sign of life about the place was the
Negro man--a young man then--going in and out
with a market basket.
• Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow
grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the
market basket
• Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows,
with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her

23. Characterization
• Two Cousins’ of Miss Emily : They respected
Miss Emily and also curious
• THE NEGRO met the first of the ladies at the front
door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant
voices and their quick, curious glances, and then
he disappeared
• The ladies : They like in making gossip and
always curious with Miss Emily’s life
• Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a
disgrace to the town and a bad example to the
young people

24. Setting
• Place :
• Grave
• A big House
• Jeffersons as A City where Miss Emily lived
• Stairway
• Miss Emily’s yard
• The town
• Downstrair’s room
• A room above the stairs
• A druggstore

25. Setting
• Place :
• Grave
• WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town
went to her funeral...................
• A big house
• It was a big, squarish frame house that had once
been white, decorated with cupolas and spires
.........................

26. Setting
• Jeffersons as A City where Miss Emily lived
• Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of
those august names where they lay in the cedar-
bemused cemetery among the ranked and
anonymous graves of Union and Confederate
soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.
• Stairway
• They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall
from which a stairway mounted into still more
shadow

27. Setting
• Miss Emily’s yard
• So the next night, after midnight, four men
crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the
house like burglars, ..............................
• The town
• The town had just let the contracts for paving
the sidewalks,

28. Setting
• Downstrair’s room
• She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a
heavy walnut bed with a curtain...........................
• A room above the stairs
• The violence of breaking down the door seemed
to fill this room with pervading dust.
...........................
• A druggstore
• "I want some poison," she said to the druggist.
....................

29. TIME
• in the 1894
• dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel
Sartoris, the mayor--he who fathered the edict
that no Negro woman should appear on the
streets without an apron-remitted her taxes,

30. Style :
• Diction : the meaning is similar
according to the dictionary
• When the next generation, with its more
modern ideas, became mayors and
aldermen, this arrangement created some
little dissatisfaction.

31. IMAGERY
• Seeing : a big and seventies house, a funeral, a
respected lady, shadow, rose, arsenic as poison, a
market basket, man’s toilet in silver, with the letters
H.B, complete outfit of men’s clothing, including
nighshirt, a long grey hair, and skeleton
• Smelling : odor smell from a dead body.
• Hearing : a silent place of Miss Emily’s house, a
whispering from neighbor, invisible watch ticking at
the end of the gold chain

32. FIGURE OF SPEECH
• WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town
went to her funeral: symbolism
• the men through a sort of respectful affection for a
fallen monument : symbolism
• Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a
care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, :
symbolism
• She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in
motionless water, and of that pallid hue. : simile

33. FIGURE OF SPEECH
• "Just as if a man--any man--could keep a
kitchen properly, "the ladies said; so they were
not surprised when the smell developed. It was
another link between the gross, teeming world
and the high and mighty Griersons. :
metaphor
• A window that had been dark was lighted and
Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and
her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. :
simile

34. FIGURE OF SPEECH
• People in our town, remembering how old lady
Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy
at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves
a little too high for what they really were : analogy
• The day after his death all the ladies prepared to
call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as
is our custom Miss Emily met them at the door,
dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her
face : analogy
• Then the newer generation became the backbone
and the spirit of the town, : metaphor

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