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    Mixed reviews over new film “Fury” which stars Brad Pitt playing an army sergeant named Wardaddy who leads his men on a mission to destroy as many Nazis as they can. Which seems like any other World War II movie out there “Saving Private Ryan”, "Where Eagles Dare”, and “Kelly’s Heroes” are only a few of the other Nazi killing movies out there. “Fury” was another war film directed and written by David Ayer who is known for “Training Day”, “End of Watch”, and “Sabotage” he also likes to make his film

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    to pay chose attention. The novel causes the reader to figure out what is taking place within the novel. The novel gives key points to help the reader piece together what the novel is saying (Churchwell). Some readers think that reading The Sound and the Fury novel without having a prior understanding is like riding in the fog without headlights. The novel can be challenging to read, but is very rewarding to the reader who completes

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    Southern Gothic has shaped American society today. Southern Gothic appears in novels, movies, theater plays, nevertheless many other works. American society reflects the southern Gothic genre in many aspects of entertainment. Southern Gothic is a genre of southern writings that focus on grotesque themes. The genre had developed during the civil war in the twentieth century. The civil war had ultimately caused the end of slavery while leaving America devastated. America was economically failing

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    Southern Gothic Genre

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    The Sound and The Fury Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction in American literature that takes place specifically in the American South. Common themes in Southern Gothic literature include deeply flawed, disturbing or strange characters, ambivalent gender roles, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to poverty, alienation, crime, or violence. William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury uses irony and macabre to portray the changing values

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    Southern Gothic has shaped American society today. Southern Gothic appears in novels, movies, theater plays, nevertheless many other works. American society reflects the southern Gothic genre in many aspects of entertainment. Southern Gothic is a genre of southern writings that focus on grotesque themes. The genre had developed during the civil war in the twentieth century. The civil war had ultimately caused the end of slavery while leaving America devastated. America was economically failing

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    already known, preventing it from expanding beyond the conventional boundaries], good texts to undo them... The Sound and the Fury is a novel which carries its resistance to the most extreme end this side of incoherence. Its principal object is that it should not be read, in the sense that it seeks to withstand from beginning to end every critical strategy. (New Essays on The Sound and the Fury

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    Sin And Salvation Themes

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    and was translated into French in 1957. In 2009, Absalom, Absalom, and The Sound Of The Fury won William Faulkner the Nobel Peace Prize, with the judges declaring the former the best Southern novel ever

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    emphasizes raging against death towards his dying father as he repeats this exhortation in the last line in every stanza. Imagery, sound, metrics, and tone, are used by Thomas to create the theme of his poem and what it means. Here is how the imagery of the poem develops the meaning of the poem. First of all, Thomas convey resistance towards death with images of fury and fighting, as in "do not go gentle." With images of "good

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    Deadly Seven: Summary

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    The Deadly Seven are escaping Gehenna, section of Hell where the damned souls and fallen demons are tortured and punished by the Furies. Abaddon, the tormentor, sends his enslaved souls to capture the Deadly Seven and promised to set free the tormented souls who successfully capture the Deadly Seven. As they are trying to escape the souls split up the group by causing the cave to collapse. Greed, Wrath, Sloth, and Gluttony, on the other side, find an exit out of the Gehenna Realm. Once they get an

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    The author that will be discussed is William Faulkner who wrote “A Rose for Emily”. He was from Mississippi and many of his works were related to southern culture and gothic writing style. Faulkner’s works such as ‘A Rose for Emily” and “The Sound and the Fury”. Southern gothic writing is a genre of Southern writing. The stories often focus on grotesque themes. While it may include supernatural elements, it mainly focuses on damaged, even delusional, characters. It was inspired by original gothic

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