Betrayal In As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying is a novel by William Faulkner that chronicles the journey of the Bundren family (Anse, Dewey Dell, Darl, Jewel, Cash, and Vardaman) to bury their recently deceased mother, Addie, in Jefferson. Throughout As I Lay Dying, Faulkner treats Darl as the de-facto narrator of the novel, endowing Darl with the most passages in the novel and endowing him with an omniscient perspective of the events chronicled in the book. Jewel, however, gets the opposite treatment from Faulkner; he only is designated one passage in the entire book and is known for being self-centered and close-minded. In terms of the motivation of traveling to Jefferson, Darl has none, while Jewel’s sole purpose is to give Addie a proper burial. By the end of the novel,

The worst feeling of pain anyone could feel is when you are betrayed by some who you though loved you. Betrayal is an act of disloyalty and it is violating someone's trust. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, betrayal is a reoccurring action between many characters. This play shows the audience different types of betrayal that are imaginable, from a husband betraying his wife, a boyfriend betraying his girlfriend and a mother betraying the son and father. These actions of betrayal hurt the people that are most loved and destroys them where it most hurts in the end. Betrayal is one of the strongest and most important themes in Hamlet. The entire play revolves around the murder of King Hamlet. Betrayal is expanded even further, there

When Dewey Dell first comes to mind, she is first characterized as feeble-minded. Throughout the book, whenever Dewey Dell would talk, it could be seen that she still had a young mind and she was very slow when it came down to everyday things in life. For example, “He is a big tub of guts and I am a little tub of guts and if there is not any room for anything else important in a big tub of guts, how can it be room in a little tub of guts”(Faulkner, 58). Although this quote is a mouth full, it represents how Dewey sees things or how she is able to express them. With this quote, it becomes evident that she is pregnant, but the way she talks and thinks brings realization that she is not ready for the child.

Patricia Bray uses several different writing techniques to convey a mood of suspense in the story The First Betrayal. She uses diction or other word choices in order to create the mood. She also uses imagery to see inside of the story. Lastly, Bray uses appropriate details to help create the mood. By using these techniques she creates that darkening mood.

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.

Dewey has a lot of atrocious things going on in her life and she does other things to keep her mind off of them. “ She can almost hear Papa’s voice and she won’t. She can’t. She starts saying the multiplication table, fast, under her breath, as if it were a chant that will keep all her thoughts at bay”(237). After the death of her father, Dewey has been hearing him in her head and in everyday situations.

His family wasfinancially stable, but his father, Murry, was an alcoholic. Their family dinners were done silentand Murry unexpectedly left town for a couple of days and then came back. Faulkner’s mother,Maud, was an independent, hardheaded woman. Murry and Maud fought really often. WilliamFaulkner’s books explore family dynamics, race, gender, and social class. Faulkner was somewhat misfit. It is said that he used to invent stories about himself. (“As I Lay Dying Analysis”).As I Lay Dying was a required to read in Pulaski County High School, a high school inSomerset, Kentucky as a reading assignment in an advanced English class. The book waschallenged because the book contains profanity and a part about masturbation. School boardmembers were concerned for the book’s language and dialect. Central High School in Loisville,Kentucky decided to ban the book for profanity and confusion on the existence of God (“Bannedand/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20thCentury”). Some of the bans were quickly reversed, but some remained banned (Baldassarro,“As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner”). “Then I would wait until they all went to sleep so I could lie with my shirt-tail up,hearing them asleep, feeling myself without touching myself, feeling the cool silence blowingupon my parts and wondering if Cash was yonder in the darkness doing it too, had been doing itperhaps for

Not only does the novel use the Party’s intolerance of betrayal to its ideologies as a method to facilitate the feeling of alienation and loneliness, but also that of the individual characters’ betrayal of one another. There are several examples of this throughout the novel. Some of these examples are when Charrington betrays Winston and Julia, when Parsons is betrayed by his children, when Winston and Julia betray one another, and when Winston finally betrays himself. George Orwell used these examples to demonstrate how the party was able to sever any type of loyalties between people and even one’s self. This betrayal only perpetuates the fear of relationships causing people to welcome isolation.

Despite the fact that human beings are oftentimes reluctant to admit it, it is a fact of life that one of the most fundamental aspects of human nature is self-interest. Selfishness pervades everyday life, no matter what efforts are made to deny and rationalize its existence. In the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, the unique method handling the death of Addie that each character uses exemplifies the inherent selfishness apparent in human nature and outlines the various emotions that accompany the death of a loved one.

During World War II and the Holocaust, there was not only mistrust for the government but there was also plenty of mistrust for prior friends and neighbors. In the graphic novel, “Maus (Volume I and II) Vladek Spiegelman makes it very clear to his son, Artie, that one cannot count on their friends. He makes the point that in time of hardship, friends will abandon you quite quickly. Vladek says, “Friends? Your friends…if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…then you could see what it is, friends! (Maus, VI. 5-6). Throughout the novel, we see examples of this gloomy point proven repeatedly.

In the novel, As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, two characters ,Darl and Jewel Bundren, each cope with their mother’s death and deal with their isolation from their family by expressing their feelings in deeply emotional behavior. Darl, the second eldest sibling out of five, questions his existence because of his isolation and the lack of love he received from his mother growing up. Jewel, on the other hand, was his mother’s favorite of all five of her children. Jewel was the bastard son of Addie Bundren and the minister she had an affair with, Whitfeld. Due to the violent situation by which he was conceived, Jewel expresses all of his actions, including love, through violence and hatred. Both Darl and Jewel Bundren, convey their

William Faulkner’s novel, As I Lay Dying, tells the story of a family that journeys cross-country with the intentions to find a proper resting place for their mother, Addie Bundren. After reading for only a short time, it becomes clear that two of her sons, Jewel and Darl, play a much larger role in the story than the other siblings. One could find many good points to support either character being labeled as the protagonist of the story, such as the various tensions that can clearly be seen between them. That being said, Darl is, without a doubt, the best possible choice. He is forced to overcome more obstacles, including alienation from his entire family, than any other character, and is truly a changed person by the end of the novel.

Many mothers, regardless of age or situation, share sympathetic life ideals. They all share the common goal of raising their children wholesome; they want to create an environment of love, nurture, and support for their children as well. A mother’s effort to implant good values in her children is perpetual; they remain optimistic and hope that their children would eventually become prosperous. However, some women were not fit to be mothers. Thus, two different roles of a mother are portrayed in As I Lay Dying written by William Faulkner. Faulkner uses the literary technique of first person narrative with alternating perspectives. By doing so, Faulkner adds authenticity and the ability to relate (for some) to the two characters Addie

Dewey Dell has an errand to fulfill from when they initially set out to Jefferson: to terminate a pregnancy. This too, however, is driven by Anse, at least in part. She is afraid of what her family will do if they find out: “She just keeps saying Are you going to tell pa? Are you going to kill him?” (Darl, 710). Darl suspects that she wants Addie to die specifically so she can get to town. The “Are you going to tell pa?” is instrumental in Dewey Dell’s motivations. She doesn’t want anything to happen to Lafe and she doesn’t want anything to happen to

Dearest Wegg, this isn’t a letter about how much I loath life, or my worst experience so far; but to talk about my worst betrayal. Not only for me, but for my dad and sisters and how it’s affected us so far. I’ll give a brief summary of some events that occured before the “big one” happened. Me, my sisters, and dad all lived with this wonderful woman, Gretchen. She was the best mother figure we’ve had. Not only did she care about us unconditionally, she also loved and worried about us the same way. I’ve never been happier and more content in my life, then when I was there. I was in a nice house, in Sherwood, with amazing neighbors close to the school. Every night we sat down and ate dinner at the table, helped clean up, watch some Goldbergs or Modern Family together and do homework. Both of our families had a member who was very ill, with cancer. My grandma Falls, and Gretchen's close cousin Randy. Gretchen left for a week to Hawaii to be with her family, because no one was sure if Randy would make it, considering the cancer in his stomach migrated. While she was gone, my grandma unfortunately passed away in her sleep from pancreas cancer; she sadly had been battling it for a while with no chemo, just pain medicine and regular appointments. My sisters and I were at my moms the weekend this happened, and we found out the news through my mom. My grandma had been a huge support for my family, especially during hardships. She was also super close with my dad. When my dad