A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, is about a Emily who went through a lot during her life. She had to cope with her father’s death. After her father’s death, she went out very little. She couldn't believe that her father died so she talked about it for days saying the he was not dead. She did not want to let anyone dispose of her father's body. She got sick for a very long time. Then later on in her life, Homer Barron appeared in her life, “he was a very big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face”. The people in town started seeing them together Sunday afternoons. Homer was the one who was going to marry Ms. Emily everyone in town used to say. Later on, everyone would just say poor Emily, because Homer himself had remarked that he liked men. And all of the sudden, no one saw him again and …show more content…
A. Kemble who wrote in a letter, "To be sure, if 'noblesse oblige,' royalty must do so still more" (OED, p. 453).
The connection between noblesse oblige and royalty continues to this day. It was the title of an April 25, 1994 article in Forbes magazine that profiles Bostonian Martin Lobkowicz, the son of a Czech aristocrat, who fled the Czech Republic at the age of 10. With Czech democratization, Martin Lobkowicz was able to reclaim his family's estates. (Berman, P. (1994, April 25). Noblesse oblige. Forbes, 153(9), 96 Noblesse oblige in modern times is given that people in high status individuals tend to conceive of the current structure of society as fair and just, we expected that high status members of the U.S. house of representatives would be more likely to support economic inequality in their legislative behavior than would their low status counterparts. The people who are more fortunate to be born wealthy sometimes have to be thankful and help those in need. It is not their responsibility. But they are so blessed that they can give a little something of what they