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Filling in the Gaps: Ideology in Faulkner’s “Dry September”
The story “Dry September”, by William Faulkner is at its core, a story about ideology. Ideology, being defined as the “system of interlinked ideas, symbols, and beliefs by which a culture seeks to justify and perpetuate itself,”(Bercovitch 635) is the impetus behind all the action in “Dry September.” The beliefs and assumptions of ....
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.... 211) Rogalus goes on to examine the scene in the theatre as a ‘victory lap’ for Minnie Cooper; where she parades herself through the town and then cannot contain her joyous laughter once in the movie theatre. He goes go on to acknowledge the ideological motivations of the main characters, focusing strictly on the members of the mob that kills Mayes. Rogalus picks out the most obvious traces of ideology in the text—the mob members acting on ideolog ....
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