Miss Emily Dialectical Journal

Captain Abigail Ransom growled as the alarm woke her up, the droning sound coming from the comm panel by the bed. She leaned over and kissed the younger woman next to her on the neck causing her to stir “mmhh Good morning Captain” Abigail leaned over to give her a proper kiss. “Ship will be at the trading post in an hour, think we have time to have a little more fun.” She said with a grin “You're the captain.” The younger woman grinned wickedly before being drawn into a long passionate kiss.

Miss Emily is also decaying, but it is subtle and internal--the awful smell that begins to permeate from her dwelling is a reflection of the withering woman within rotting. Perhaps most tragically, Miss Emily’s isolation is far from self-inflicted. Her blind devotion to the ones she loves; her father, her husband, her home; only serves to further condemn her actions. Her neighbors disregard toward her inabilty to let go of her father after his death, despite the delicacy of her being, caused for her madness to fester. “She told them her father was not dead.

Throughout academia, textbooks are commonly utilized by teachers to convey new information to students of all ages. Textbooks, therefore, have a profound impact on what individuals believe to be true as they mature from childhood into adulthood. Emily Martin, a prominent anthropologist at New York University in Manhattan, believes that the content in some of these textbooks is problematic as they perpetuate stereotypical gender roles that still exist in society today. Specifically, in her article The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles (1991), Martin discusses at length the portrayal of egg and sperm cells during the reproductive process by various textbooks. According to Martin,

Emily Grierson is to be tried as guilty for the murder of Homer Barron. Witnesses have given the readers sufficient accounts of Miss Emily’s behavior to cause belief in her committing murder of the first degree. “First degree murder is found when the defendant intends to kill and does so with premeditation and deliberation” (Criminal Law Murder Model). The victim, having been found locked away in the house of Miss Emily (327), is the basis of prosecution for the accused. Emily Grierson will be found guilty of murder because she premeditated her crime, was psychologically unstable, and attempted to conceal her crime.

The man everyone thought Emily was to marry left her suddenly, the house began to smell a putrid odor, then the judge of the town ordered for the property to have lime sprinkled around it. Emily’s father died, although for three days she refused to tell people he had died, she then turned his body into the mortician, to be buried. Emily then has been seen every Sunday taken on buggy rides with a man beneath her ranking as a result the town feels pitiful for her to forget her family pride. Emily orders arsenic labeled “For Rats”. The townspeople believed she was going to use it to poison herself. A minister was ordered to her house, when he left the house he spoke of how he would never

Those who are esteemed in their profession and view themselves as the best often have the most trouble accepting a new member to their group or profession. They often fear that their skills will be out matched and the newcomer will rise to take their place. This is what occurred with Emily Dickenson when she first entered the world of poetry. Despite the lack of welcoming she received from her peers the American people embraced her poetry and even in modern-day she is regarded as one of the greatest American poets.

Poetry is meant to provoke in a thoughtful way. It makes the reader consider what the deeper meaning behind the piece may be. I Heard a Fly Buzz—when I died does all that but it also perplexes the reader, making one wonder what was Emily Dickison writing about in this poem? And what is the reader supposed to take away?

I woke up early - too early for my liking - and remembered that today was the day that I would push my powers to there full potential. Tiredly I walked over to Autumn, who automatically locked eyes with mine as we held a long gaze. She reached up to my face with her small fragile hands and began waving them in the air like a crazy person. She must've heard me talking to Emily, who was going to babysit her whilst I was out fighting. I keep forgetting that she is a witch too, after all she acts like a normal child. And she will be until she's around 15, for the time being she will just have enhanced sences. Gently, I lifted Autumn from her crib and began to get her changed into some warm comfy clothes.

The narrator has the mothers tone change throughout the story from thinking to the past onto the present. Reflecting on her daughter Emily, she expresses “what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron” (190). Further in the story she describes Emily as being this beautiful baby. The authors uses a lot of metaphors to give a brief picture on Emily’s beauty. Which continues to put this question in the mothers head as to why Emily didn’t turn out the way she thought she did. It’s almost like a blessing that she didn’t turn out to be similar to her mother but instead becomes successful person who would like to achieve more with her

In the short story a rose for Emily, Faulkner uses the characters throughout the story to portray the image of the old south. Faulkner begins to portray the changing of the old south to the new south through one of the key characters Miss Emily. The beginning of the story starts out with her being a beautiful young woman with a very wealthy and healthy father, resembling of times before the war. Her father was a perfect example of the old town a strong wealthy rich white older plantation owner. As Emily grows older her father becomes ill and dies the overprotection from her father over Emily and Emily’s love and respect for her father resulted in ms Emily not wanting to give up his body to the doctors or towns people to be properly buried, this being the first symbol that Emily was not prepared for the transition that

Humanity has been carved, channeled, and form by the few influential elite throughout history. These are a group of closely knit alliance of military, government, and corporate officials perceived as the center of wealth and political power of their time. The “common folk” can only file through the channels, like a herd of cattle marching into their doom, which the power elite have implemented on the “common folk’s” behalf. Karl Marx saw behind capitalism's struggle between two main classes: the capitalists, who own the productive resources, and the workers or proletariat, who must work in order to survive. From the perspective of the Marxist Theory, we see how Emily’s class, dominate what she can get away with and what the manner in what she treats visitor in her home, but subsequently she falls from affluence which ends up affecting her interaction with the town.

The short story “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) by Tillie Olsen is a touching narration of a mother trying to understand and at the same time justifying her daughter’s conduct. Frye interprets the story as a “meditation of a mother reconstructing her daughter’s past in an attempt to express present behavior” (Frye 287). An unnamed person has brought attention and concern to her mother expressing, “‘She’s a youngster who needs help and whom I’m deeply interested in helping’” (Olsen 290). Emily is a nineteen-year-old complex girl who is atypical, both physically and in personality.

Emily Dickinson describes a judgmental society in her poem “Much Madness is Divinest Sense”. Although Dickinson’s society was probably more judgmental on women wanting to be independent and not wanting to relay on man who back then was seen as the dominate being this poem still depicts an accurate society we live in today. Modern day society is so quick to judge and label what is acceptable or not even though they do not understand everything that is going on. Our extremely judgmental society will judge you on absolutely anything like political views, the food you eat, the clothes you wear, or how you do your hair. However, This is a huge problem not just with society’s standards on beauty but also on human psychology. A poet who understood

Through countless deaths and years of self reclusion, Emily Dickinson’s poems reflected her experiences of death, loneliness, and life after death. She was a poet far ahead of her time, and her poems were only found and appreciated on a large scale after death. As a child, Dickinson grew up in a well established family, and had a brother and a sister. She attended school in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it is there that she first started to study literature and poetry. Even as a child, Dickinson familiarized herself with death’s presence (Her Childhood and Youth). When her friend Sophia Holland died, Dickinson was damaged greatly and left school for a while. After a few more years of schooling, Dickinson

The townspeople felt bad for Emily and thought the reason for her craziness was because her family had a history of it. Emily also waits three days before revealing the death of her father. Emily allows the dead body of her father to lie in her home rotting away. Another crazy action that Emily does is when she goes to the pharmacy to purchase “rat poison”. When Emily goes to buy the arsenic she doesn’t tell the druggist what exactly she is going to use it for, but stares him down making him feel uncomfortable. “Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up” (213). One of the most extreme actions Emily performs is being responsible for Homer Barron’s death. But, after fully reading the story the reader understands that Emily not only kills Homer but sleeps with his corpse. “What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay… Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair” (215) There the reader’s thought of Emily sleeping with the dead body and her psychotic tendencies is confirmed.