Interpretation Of The Abnormal Character Emily In A Rose For Emily

Faulkner is one of the modern American novelists who have gained a worldwide reputation as one of the best story-tellers in America or even the world. William Faulkner is a great and successful avant-garde experimenter in modern literary techniques. He seems more interested in what goes on beneath the surface the of a story---in the source of a tragedy or misery rather than in tragedy or misery itself. And his ability to convey feeling contributes a lot to the success of his novel. He depicts the feelings can't be described:insanity, split, distortion, grotesque, and the secret unplumbed depths of the soul.Abnormal psychology itself is not a single subject, while we use it to describe the abnormal psychology and abnormal human behaviors as the pathology, it also concerns main social, family, ethical, historical and cultural and factors. The art of abnormal psychology carries the appeal of cultural reflection and free life.Blending the tragedy and comedy, and the pleasure of reasoning and curiosity of adventures together, Faulkner artfully uses abnormal psychology in his literary works, which forms the special aesthetic characteristics of his works. In the process of creating the abnormal character,Faulkner conveys his criticism and reflection of the essence of culture. He strengthens the human consciousness by self-examination through the reality of art:Abnormal images are the spiritual expectations which are much better and more rational in his inner desire.Through the panoramic analysis of the psychology and abnormal behaviors of the character Emily in A Rose for Emily (which is William Faulkner's most famous short story), we understand and evaluate, identify and reflect on abnormal psychology and behavior, exploring the writer's artistic technique, humanistic care and the literary significances of the character in the works.There are six parts in this thesis:Chapter One is a general introduction about William Faulkner and the novel.The first part of Chapter Two presents abnormal psychology defined from the perspective of humanities and as a special form of artistic expression. With a special psychological rhythm, the authors created characters with an ugly, crazy and distorted human nature and behaviors that ordinary people can not understand. That completes the deep humanistic care for the special roles.Chapter Two also analyzes the types and characteristics of abnormal psychology portrayed in the work and describes inseparable link between the literary creation and the abnormal psychology. At the same time Chapter Two discusses the formation of abnormal psychology with Freud's point of view about psychoanalysis.In Chapter Three, we first analyze Emily's abnormal psychology and behaviors in this works in detail.This analysis is from three aspects:Emily's personality disorders, extreme loneliness, and lack of social support. Through Faulkner's description of the mental disorders of women under the traditional repression, he profoundly revealed the declining family's corruption and the collapse of old traditions, as well as the hovering and misery of the people in this process.Also, the portrayal of Emily's bizarre sexual perversion makes us clear about that Faulkner intensely condemned the destruction of South women brought by the tradition of the South ladies system and the Puritan concept of womanhood.Chapter Four analyses how the inner world of the abnormal character in the novel are deepened and enriched from three perspectives:the grotesque and horror effects, symbolism and narrative techniques, the intense artistic effects with the close combination of abnormal psychology and Faulkner's literary techniques.Chapter Five presents Faulkner's concerns reflected from the abnormal characters with the perspective of the times and society. We conclude Faulkner's condemnation on the patriarchy.Chapter Six is a conclusion about the whole paper.In this paper, we conclude that Faulkner's distinctive quality is his perfect union of Gothic fiction unique techniques, and abnormal psychology, which performs intensive artistic effects. In William Faulkner's refined, vivid, and deeply penetrating short story, he revealed the existence of such abnormal character, providing people an outstanding and special model for realizing the psychology behind the vulnerability of people. Faulkner combined abnormal psychology closely with literary techniques, which clarified the significance of psychology as well created a breakthrough and innovation in literature. In the matter of exploring the morality and social criticism with Gothic novels and detective novels, he is far above Edgar Allan Poe.