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1、2StudyontheGothicCharacteristicsinFaulknersARoseforEmilyAbstract1ChapterOneIntroduction2ChapterTwoFaulknerAndGothicNovels3ChapterThreeTheGothicCharacteristicsinARoseforEmily43.1TheGothicCharacteristicintheDescriptionofEmily’sHouse53.2TheGothicCharacteristicintheThemeofARosefor
2、Emily53.3TheGothicCharacteristicintheNarrativeofARoseforEmily63.4TheGothicCharacteristicintheCharacterofEmily7ChapterFourConclusion9Acknowledgements10Bibliography1192Abstract:Gothicnovelenjoysalonghistory.ThesouthernsocialbackgroundandtraditioninAmerica,especiallythePlantation
3、Institution,thePuritanism,andtheSlavery,accountforthedevelopmentoftheGothicnovelinAmerica.AsarepresentativeofAmericansouthernwriter,WilliamFaulknerwritesmanywell-knownnovels,whichcontainstrikingfeaturesofGothicstyle.Hisfamousshortstory,ARoseforEmily,isnoexception.Ittellsagrisl
4、ymurderhappeninginthesouthernsocietyinAmerica,disclosingthepersecutionimposedbytheoldsoutherntradition.TheGothicelements,usedinthisnovelononehandenhanceitsappealandontheotherhanddeepenthetheme.TheGothicelementsfindpervasiveembodimentsinthisshortstoryinthefollowingfouraspects--
5、-Emily’shouse,thetheme,thenarrativewayandthecharacter,basedonthepreviousresearchandthetraditionalgothicfeaturesinliterature.ThispaperintendstointerpretthesefeaturestogetafullerunderstandingofFaulkner’sworksandgothicnovels.Keywords:Gothnovel;theme;character;narrative99Studyonth
6、eGothicCharacteristicsinFaulkner’sARoseforEmilyChapterOneIntroductionAsagreatshortstorywhichpublishedin1930,ARoseforEmilywasoneofthebestknownandthemostwidelyreadnovelsamongWilliamFaulkner’sshortstories.ARoseforEmilyhasbeenstudiedbymanyscholars,andtherearealotofstudyachievement
7、sfromdifferentways.Somescholarshavestudieditswritingskills,suchasnarrativeskills,andtheusingofsymbolism;andsomehavestudiedthebackgroundorsettingofthestory.ThestorytookplaceinamythicaltownthatWilliamFaulknercalledJefferson,Mississippi.Thestoryhappenedintheperiodofthelateninetee
8、nthandearlytwentiethcenturieswhenthetownwaslearningtolivewith