A Fallen Monument By William Faulkner

Born in New Albany, Mississippi on Sept. 25th, 1897, Faulkner is one of America’s most celebrated novelist, poet, and short story writer. In contrast to the minimalistic style of his contemporaries, Faulkner often employed “stream of consciousness” into his work and wrote highly emotional, complex, and almost grotesque stories. As I Lay Dying, however, was one of Faulkner’s extreme pieces of literature. Through presenting the stories in the voices of fifteen unique characters, Faulkner was able to offer readers each character’s inner thoughts and emotions. While Darl, for instance, narrates in a storytelling fashion using reminiscences of his past and internal monologues. Dewey Dell, on the other hand, narrates with frantic energy and random thoughts. As we are not simply passive readers of each narrator, he brings up an interesting question: Whose narrative should we trust and whose should we not? Each individual character constitutes only a single part of the big picture, so it is up to readers to decide the credibility of each accounts. However, Faulkner does turn the reader's attention to one character in particular: Darl Bunsen. By contrasting Darl’s omniscience to his supposed insanity,

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying presents a broken family whose members are not all sound of mind. They all present different ways in which their sense of self can be viewed as broken. Even though there is no forefront hero depicted within the novel there is definitely evidence that suggests that some of the heroes are capable of heroic characteristics. Though there is rampant selfishness and immorality some redeeming qualities of the Bundren family shine through.

Compared to many writers, Faulkner’s sentence structure is long and drawn out, making the story appear more complicated. The novel’s themes and storylines are relatively simple, but the intricate writing makes the narrative difficult to understand. A wise, old

Exploring the Layers of Maternity and Southern Womanhood in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

The modern world is in the midst of reconstructing gender roles; debates about contraception, reproductive freedom, and female inequality are contentious and common. The majority now challenges the long established assertion that women’s bodies are the eminent domain of patriarchal control. In the past, a woman’s inability to control her reproductive choices could come with ruinous consequences. Proponents of patriarchal control argue against reproductive independence with rhetoric from religious texts and with anecdotes of ‘better days,’ when women were subservient. Often, literature about childbearing fails to acknowledge the possibility of women being uninterested in fulfilling the role of motherhood.

Faulkner continues his southern gothic writing style when the story goes back to an earlier time in Miss Emily’s life. Faulkner

His actually education only goes as far as one year at the University of Mississippi. After leaving Oxford and living in New Haven, Connecticut for a few years, Faulkner joined the British Royal Flying Corps. He never served active duty, as the war ended before his training did. Faulkner returned home and began writing poetry. But his early writing was more of the traditional style- a mix of Shakespeare, Victorian, and Edwardian. It wasn’t until a trip to New Orleans in 1925 that he began to fiddle with his writing style, after a friend encouraged him to write more Southern based prose. His style also grew as he began reading James Joyce, a “high” modernist writer, and Sigmund Freud, and also took a trip to Europe- the center of modernist writing. With these influences, Faulkner began writing novels about Southern society, with an emphasis on the psychology of the characters. For example, in his novel The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner writes from four different points of view; the first three sections are of each of the three brother’s point of view, and the last section is omniscient. His writing also plays with chronology, not always following a specific timeline. The disjointedness of time is very prominent in As I Lay Dying. About the death of a mother, the 59 inner monologues and fifteen characters make the book more about the characters psychology rather than a

William Faulkner is a writer from Mississippi. Faulkner is a very famous writer with most of his most famous works being short stories. Two of his most popular short stories are “A rose for Emily” along with “Barn Burning”. Faulkner has many other popular works, but “Barn Burning” was one of his well-known stories because of the many different of elements of literature in which Faulkner chose to include. Faulkner was known as a writer who could properly convey many different elements of literature, such as symbolism, conflict, tone, and many other elements of plot within his stories. In “Barn Burning”, William Faulkner most commonly uses symbolism and conflict to emphasize the obstacles that Sarty has to face in his youth years.

William Faulkners reveals to us a family who is in neediness, and have a few inconveniences and battles. William Faulkner utilizes mental pictures to exhibit a request of focal subjects like being mindful of and financial condition among a few others. From the essential monologue, you may recognize and allowance of sensual appeal, they're an influential prospect all through the novel. One in the majority of the subjects in "As I Lay Dying" is a relationship between human and nature. Nature plays a vital role in this Novel; William Faulkner uses mental images to disclose a number of the character to animals.

There are several ways in which William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" is indicative of literary modernism. It depicts a relevant historical period and is part of the frontiersman literary tradition (Gleeson-White, 2009, p. 389). The author utilizes a number of purely literary approaches that were innovative for the time period in which the tale was originally published (in 1932), such as employing a young child as a narrator complete with misspelled words and broken, puerile thoughts. However, the most eminent way in which this story embraces the tradition of literary modernism is in the author's rendition of dynamic social conventions that were in a state of flux at the time of the writing. Specifically, his treatment of race is the inverse of how race is generally portrayed in American literature prior to the early part of the 20th century. An analysis of this integral component of "Barn Burning" reveals that Faulkner's unconventional rendering of African American characters in a desirable social status particularly as compared to that of the Snopes clan is crucial to this tale's inclusion as part of the tradition of literary modernism.

But there are many different opinions about Faulkner and his writing. In The world that created William Faulkner – William Faulkner and Southern History by Joel Williamson, Don H. Doyle talks and comments on Joel Williamson’s thoughts about Faulkner’s work. It is said in the document that Williamson investigated Faulkner and his family and found some very interesting things. For example, that Faulkner’s grandfather stole five thousand dollars of the taxes he collected for the government and ‘supposedly’ ran away with a black woman that served another family. Even if Williamson is a historian that likes to look into the facts rather than the ‘town’s gossip’ he states that the stealing part was true. He also talked about Faulkner’s allegations

2. Memory and oral history are two of the major themes in Light of August shaping the sense of the self, through familial, societal, and collective memories, and by creating family stories that define the identities of those who inherit them. In what ways Faulkner’s characters convey the importance of such markers in peoples’ identities? How does the representation of the South as distinctly regional, contributes to the formation of/ or lack of a character’s identity in the

William Faulkner, the eldest son to parents Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. Although Faulkner was not a keen student in high school, which eventually lead to his dropping out before graduation, he was very enthusiastic about undirected learning. After years of studying independently, Faulkner allowed a friend of his family, Phil Stone, to assist him with his academic vocation. This relationship inspired Faulkner and after a short period spent with the Royal Air Force in 1918 he decided to go to university where he began writing and publishing poetry. In 1924 Stone’s financial assistance helped Faulkner publish a

     The works of William Faulkner have had positive effects on readers throughout his career. Local legends and gossip trigger the main focus of his stories. Considering that Faulkner grew up in Mississippi, he was very familiar with the ways of the South. This award winning author has been praised by many critics for his ability and unique style of writing. One of Faulkner's most popular works, which also was his first short story nationally published in

Faulkner was very intelligent but seemed to lack interest in school; Faulkner dropped out of school to [form his passion for writing] (Brinkmeyer).He began as a poet and then a writer of fiction (Brinkmeyer), Faulkner then traveled around the world to explore his books and to live his passion. Being born into such a respected southern family that played into Mississippi’s history (“William Faulkner”) meant the Faulkner’s name would be lived down forever and he would have big shoes to fill. William Clark Faulkner, his great-grandfather served in the Confederate Army and had been involved in the development of the American railroad. His great-grandfather was a novelist which inspired him to want to pursue a writing career. All of Faulkner’s experiences shaped his style of writing which were dense and packed at times [and with bursting points], embodies his belief that every moment of existence is pressured almost to suffocation by all that has come before- the past, as he said, is never past( Brink Meyer).