Symbolism in fiction: A Rose for Emily & The Tell-Tale Heart
In the same way a painter uses shape, color, perspective, and other aspects of visual art to create a painting, a fiction writer uses character, setting, plot, point of view, theme and various kinds of symbolism and language to create artistic effect in fiction. In literature, a symbol is define by Michael Meyer “a person, object, image, word or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance” (2212). William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” are two examples of fiction that utilize symbolism effectively to examine latent ideas present in literature. A Rose for Emily is a story of the conflicting values between the past and present south. Emily and the antiquate house symbolize the ideals of the old, pre-industrial, pre-civil war south. The first paragraph refers to Emily as a “fallen monument”, a monument of southern gentility before the Civil War now decease (Faulkner 75). Her house once a magnificent building in to
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