Quentin Compson Insanity

In the beginning of the novel, we learn about Johnny Cade - a quiet boy who is haunted by his past. A short time ago, Johnny was beaten senseless by a bunch

At the beginning of the short story, Faulkner does not elude too much to the coming events in the story. Perhaps our first clue of things to come, comes from this text on page 90

This addition of magical realism by the screenwriter and director to explain Benjamin’s story allows the viewer to have a visual metaphor of how it would look if time ran backwards. Like the Monsieur Gateau’s clock, Benjamin is an anomaly that is meant to defy the mechanisms of time. Yet, Benjamin and the clock both fall short on that front. Throughout the movie, the audience is shown how Benjamin is plagued with the same ailments as others even though he is ageing differently. Just like a regular human being, he experiences the lost of family and friends due to death and has to come to terms with the fact that he too will soon die. Ultimately, this shows that regardless of the way that an individual ages, death is inevitable. Even the clock eventually succumbs to “death” when it is submerged in water during the flooding of New Orleans at the end of the movie as Hurricane Katrina finally hits. Once this happens, the viewer must face the fact that

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

Faulkner has distinctively outlined the differences between the antagonist and protagonist. As on account of Colonel Sartoris Snopes, youthful wiry with blurred pants and uncombed dark colored hair is left in a predicament of equity and his family (Faulkner 226). The boy looks pale and miserable, but he is the determinant of the case at hand. He fears the gaze of his father and the look of people around him. He has a crucial decision to

Faulkner is a master at presenting reality from the perspective of multiple personalities, including different

The last child of Addie's was Vardaman who was a replacement of the child she robbed Anse of. Ironically Vardaman replaced Addie with a dead fish. Every attitude and relationship Addie had toward each child resulted in what happened and the treatment after her death. This concept brings a different meaning to treat others how you would want to be treated and I think that was Faulkner’s goal behind the relationships within the Bundred

observers with the assumption the he was merely a rash young man rebelling against his

A lot of people have read the book, “Into the Wild” and everyone has different opinions on the main character, Chris McCandless AKA Alex Supertramp, and many admire him but many also question his sanity… but is he really crazy as some people think he is? Chris McCandless is a kid who just graduated from college and set a plan for himself to live in the wild… to live in Alaska. He travels across the country, made new friends, experienced life, all whilst running from his past. He eventually made it to Alaska to survive for about 3 months, but soon died from starvation, which made people wonder; was Chris McCandless insane?

Honour among the lawless. Susan Eloise Hinton is an American author known for her novel’s set in the 1960’s. S.E Hinton is best known for her book The Outsiders. The outsiders is a novel that tells the story of social groups and how they are divided by their social status. The idea of honourable actions appear throughout the novel and it works as an important component of the greaser behavioural code.

The mind is what drives every living creature. The brian tells us everything we need to know in order to survive as a species. It is the most crucial aspect of what we are. Humans have the most complex and intelligent brain out of the entire animal kingdom. The individual spirit of a human is determined by chemicals in the brain and the interaction between them and their surroundings. So what happens when our brain does not function correctly? What happens to the person with the ailments and what happens to those around them as a result of it? In both books at least one character demonstrates insanity. While the books do not specifically state that other characters have mental instability, there are many reasons to believe that some do.

Identity typically changes with age, however he changes very little because he does not have full awareness of his identity. “Age identity refers to the inner most experience of a person’s age and aging process” (Jose 2017). Fitzgerald emphasizes Benjamin’s loss of consciousness more in the novel than Fincher does in the film. At a certain point, Benjamin stops struggling to determine who he is and just essentially waits for time to run out. He would play simply games with his grandson when they are both around the age of children beginning kindergarten. Benjamin and his grandson would continue this until he passed away. In contrast, it seems that Benjamin and his wife fight further to the end in the film, and he passes away with her by his side. The relationship between Benjamin and Daisy was stronger in the film than in the novel. His identity is very important to him in the middle of his life when he wants to go to college and enroll in the war, but towards the end he loses awareness of any self-perception he had built and slips into

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.

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

By focusing on the figure of Caddy, Bleikasten’s essay works to understand the ambiguous nature of modern literature, Faulkner’s personal interest in Caddy, and the role she plays as a fictional character in relation to both her fictional brothers and her actual readers. To Bleikasten, Caddy seems to function on multiple levels: as a desired creation; as a fulfillment of what was lacking in Faulkner’s life; and/or as a thematic, dichotomous absence/presence.