Benjy Is The First Narrator In The Sound And The Fury

To Dilsey, Benjy is innocent and in need of protection. Besides Caddy, the Gibsons are Benjy’s true caretakers and family. Dilsey’s actions prove that she is a devoted mother figure to the “idiot”, Benjy. Dilsey willingly employs her son and grandson, T.P and Luster, respectively, to be Benjy’s personal caretakers. Furthermore, on Benjy’s birthday, Dilsey purchases the cake with her own money. Dilsey lights the candles on the cake and tells Luster and Benjy to eat it before Jason sees and makes a fuss about an expense he has not paid for. Dilsey is more familiar with Benjy’s tendencies than anyone else, even Caddy. She is the only one who knows that Benjy will break into a state of hysteria if the left turn is taken at the monument of the Confederate soldier at the end of the square. She instructs Luster to take the right turn, since she knows that it’s a symbolic sense of order and security for Benjy. Associations define Benjy’s world. Furthermore, Benjy knows what time is, since he feels Caddy’s loss when he no longer “smells trees”. But, being mute and not possessing will nor deliberation, Benjy is unable to act, and helpless before the intrusions of the past. The past defines order and sequence in Benjy’s consciousness, and when the pattern is broken the loss is unbearable. After Caddy’s departure, Benjy unintentionally scares away a girl after he

Tim O’Brien uses several rhetorical strategies in this story. A strategy that is easily found in the story is imagery. He uses a lot of sensory details to help the reader know what it feels like in a certain situation. “Except for the laughter things were quiet,” (67) and “You hear stuff

Ben’s Purpose in the Drama (Consider how his appearances give meaning to the drama as a foil* to Willy.)

Ben is also a very peculiar character.  The audience first encounters him with the full knowledge that he is dead.  Ben is also the one figure that is able to move freely between the past and the present.  Because Ben represents that which Willy seeks, Willy feels that he can achieve his goal the same way that Ben did and so he believes that "opportunism, cheating and cruelty are success incarnate" (Smith).

Being bright and intelligent, she is always eager to argue politics and civil rights in the Younger apartment. Most likely due to her education, her speech lacks the slang, which is common among the majority of her race. Her dream is to become a doctor, but her hardworking, poverty-stricken family seems to think her dream is far out of reach. Bennie is in search of her true identity and refuses to accept the traditional female role expected of her. She resists her family’s advice to marry the rich man who is pursing her and simply settle on being a wife and mother and working a low level domestic job just to get

Imagine you had all of the answers but you didn't share them or use them to your own advantage. Benjamin is the animal in the story that does this. It seems like he always knows what is going on but never wants to speak up about it. In the story when the pigs are try to teach all of the other animals about the alphabet and to teach them to read, benjamin does not want to be involved and learn because he already knows how to read but doesn't tell anyone that he can. He notices things that the other animals don’t throughout the story.

*Who is the narrator of this story? What special insight does that provide the reader? What would you understand differently if the narrator had been another character?

Was when they got in the military vehicles and drive to the bridge were the hijacking was going on. At that time Ben father had another chance to save his son from making himself committing suicide. Was at that time in the military vehicle Ben father could have told Ben that he know how Nettie turned him down on a data.Or Ben father could have told Ben that he know about all the other thing that happen to Ben. If Ben father would have done that he would have done that Ben would thing his father wants to be apart of his life and would make Ben like his father more. But Ben father doesn't talk instead Ben Father stays quiet and in doing that Ben thing his father doesn't wont anything with him or his life. At the end rate if Ben father would open up and talk to Ben could have open up to him to his father. But since Ben cape his feelings all bottled up so no one know how he

Now in the literary story Benjamin has a grandfather who at the start was antagonized, became to enjoy his grandson’s company. It is a brief account of his grandfather but a meaningful one as this was the first one who gave him a sense of acceptance. The film version gave him acceptance through Queenie and we never get to know a grandfather; though one could say the patrons at the old folk’s home could have been grandparent surrogates for Benjamin. The patrons at the old folks home taught him many things but his experience living there taught him not to fear death and what loss was about which, in a sense, desensitized the character so that when Queenie passes he is not visibly upset.

Like all couples, Andie and Ben struggle with dialectical tensions in their relationship. First, they have trouble with the connection-autonomy dialectic. They are spending every day together trying to build (or destroy) their relationship (connection), but in Andie's efforts to drive Ben away she begins to make him uncomfortable with the amount of control she has in his life. She redecorates his apartment, makes him wear a shirt that matches hers and their dog's, crashes his night with his friends, and even blows his nose for him, interfering with Ben's autonomy. Another dialectic that Ben and Andie struggle with is that of openness-closedness. They both begin to have feelings for the other and want to share some things about themselves but neither is willing to disclose their original motive for the relationship. Also, Ben understandably does not mention to Andie that he was in diapers until he was five, and he gets angry when his mom divulges that information. Every relationship has such tensions, and they cannot be eliminated, only managed.

The narrators alternate, showcasing the fluctuating levels of coherence, understanding and emotional strength. The dialect differs from character to character and the language each character uses, varies on level of intensity and subjectivity. Each character’s speech varies from being confessional to teetering on the line of awareness and consciousness. The characters each have their own view on life and on the way Addie Bundren lived her life: through these alternate character’s eyes, we can piece together the bits and pieces of Addie’s life, death and the haulage of her decaying body to Jefferson. The narrative seems to be fragmented however, it also exhibits a type of unity. The story takes place over the course of a few days yet the differing “sub-plots are logically and skillfully interwoven” (Ross 309). Faulkner forces the reader to see the narrative from multiple perspectives.

One of the biggest themes in the novel “The Sound and the Fury”, written by William Faulkner, is how the presence of time affects human life. The novel is separated into four different parts, Benjy’s, Quentin’s, Jason’s, and a third person narrative that could be considered Dilsey’s section. Benjy, Quentin, and Jason are all Compson children, and Dilsey is their black servant. The motif of time is obvious in this novel, as Faulkner emphasizes how the passing of time affects all four of our narrators differently.

As Quentin Compson travels through the countryside with his college friends, the reality of the situation becomes terribly confused by memories and past feelings. After a little girl follows him for miles around town, his own sexuality reaches the forefront of his consciousness and transforms itself into disjointed memories of his sister Caddy. Quentin's constant obsession in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, surrounds a defining sexual act with his sister. Though the physical act never appears in plain language, Quentin's apparent lapse into an inner monologue demonstrates his overwhelming fixation with Caddy as well as a textured representation of their

Benjy constantly thinks of his sister Caddie who has long since left the family home but because he has no concept of time, he has no idea that she has been gone for many years. The third section is narrated by the greedy and neurotic brother, Jason. To Jason time is all about the present and he grabs every second as it goes by much as he does with the money that his sister Caddie sends to him in order to provide for her daughter who is under his care. The fourth and final section in the book, unlike all the others, is not told by one of the children but rather by an unspecified narrator. In this section time is shown as much closer to what ordinary people perceive it to be.

In relation to the disability theory, Ben becomes less human. He loses certain characteristics and becomes abundantly incapacitated. Each of the form of species is becoming more simpleminded than the next. He believes that everyone thinks too much and that “Our brains are getting bigger…and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.” The fact that he believes humans are beginning to overthink things and are becoming smarter, symbolizes the way he reverse evolves into simpler species. The forms that he devolves into don’t think as complex as humans do. Specifically, as he devolves, the specie he forms into at the end is a “one-celled wonder…brainless…” Furthermore, he worries a considerable amount about overthinking and forms into a species that doesn’t think at all. He is less of a man and more of a “lesser minded” animal. Through each species that he forms into he then decreases as a man; for instance, he first turns into a baboon, which still has traits similar to humans then into a completely nonhuman form, a salamander. Animals don’t use the mind to the standard of humans. It appears that Ben assimilated into different species to “recapture the ‘heart’ of life” In this way, Ben disables himself from other human beings, but is able to become emotionally connected with