The Sound And The Fury Essay

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

Anthony Burgess’ novel presents commentaries upon the design of society as a whole, questions of societal placement being indicative of moral righteousness, what it means to be a man, and the deeper, more primal urges of every individual. The Clockwork Orange’s gratuitous use of violence together with the intense reputation of Kubrick’s work raises questions of the purpose of this violence. The question is how is violence demonstrated as art within Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange?

William Faulkner was Born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897 to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner. Throughout his young life he was taken care of from birth until he moved out by his caretaker, an African American woman named Caroline Barr. William called her “Mammy”. Barr was one of the most influential people in his life. She was fundamental to his development in his early years. He said later on that it was a privilege to have known her and that she was the one who taught him right from wrong and sparked his interest in the politics of sexuality and race. Faulkner’s grandfather was also a writer. William Clark Falkner, often called “Old Colonel”, was an adventurous man who was a railroad financier, politician, soldier, farmer,

Faulkner grew up in Mississippi in the beginning of the twentieth century ('William Faulkner'; 699). He was the son to Murray C. and Maud Butler Faulkner (Hoffman 13). Growing up in the South in the early 1900's meant being exposed to harsh racism. He watched the blacks endure unbelievable amounts of cruelty and was amazed at how the blacks conducted themselves with such dignity. He witnessed, first hand, what discrimination is and could not comprehend why this goes on. In many of Faulkner's works I found that he portrayed blacks as quite,easy-going, well-tempered people. He attempted to show them as heroes. It is my belief that Faulkner writes about the south because that is the subject that has affected his life most.

The slave narrative genre is an important part of American history. These stories are not only portraits of individual history, but also of American history. By reading the stories of the past we can better determine the path of the future. The personal stories of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are two excellent examples of the slave narrative genre in American literature. To be sure, bondage and oppression had a lasting and profound effect on both genders; however, men and women experienced slavery in different ways. By comparing and contrasting “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” and “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” we gain very different insights into the truth about slavery from the vantage

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

William Faulkner is a major 20th-century novelist that chronicled the decay and decline of the rich and wealthy South with great imagination and psychological abilities that transcend the region. William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi; He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. Beside growing up in Oxford he wrote many novels and short stories that resemble this region of Mississippi. Faulkner's pages are filled with characters who are manacled to the past; Faulkner is showing "that the South, like the Bundrens, must bury the past; that it cannot remain true--without courting tragedy or absurdity--to the promises given to dead ancestors or to the illusions of former glory.” This is symbolic to one of his most famous

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The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, is a book based on a young soldier’s engagement in the Civil War. The psychological conflict that he faces throughout the story is both internal and external. The battles are fought in the reader’s face to show the young soldiers' conflict with himself, other soldiers, and the battle itself. With Stephen Crane’s amazing power of description, the reader becomes engulfed in the battle at hand and feels that the conflicts of the soldiers are becoming his own.

Literary critics often discuss William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury with the assumption that the entire Compson family represents the South, with each character representing a specific aspect: from the changing views of virginity and race (Quentin) to the sexual liberation of women (Caddy) to the decline of the family (Benjy). However, Jason IV is seldom discussed passed his role as a cruel and greedy man within the family. No discussion about his character development exists, and thus the shift from first-person narration to third-person narration becomes vital in understanding what Jason represents: the hypocritical feelings of personal victimhood of the non-agricultural Southerners toward the North’s economic dominance, despite the

Faulkner's family had an amazingly similar background story to that of Miss Emily Grierson. Faulkner was born in a small town in rural Mississippi, raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where the story takes place. The Falkner and the Grierson families lost their money and status in the Civil War but the social hierarchy, of the south kept them in society. Faulkner's grandfather and Emily's father were officers in the Civil War and held strong to past values. Michael Millgate points out that "William Faulkner was well aware of his family background and especially of his great grandfather, Colonel William Clark Falkner, a colorful if violent figure who fought in the Civil War"(William Faulkner).

In many of his works, Ernest Hemingway depicts physical and psychological wounding through the main character. In “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”, Hemingway portrays human behavior in its simplest form: that it is presented purely and stripped from his own life. Structured into three different scenes, this short story describes the character of Doctor Adams. The main character experiences a central conflict within a male-male relationship with his employee, who attacks his dignity as a man and . The development of the protagonist, Doctor Adams, in his relationship with women and the Indians, provides insight into masculinity and how it can bring out painful and ambivalent feelings towards one man’s self. Tracing back the notion of manliness in this work will not only show the importance of pride that the protagonist struggles to maintain but also will demonstrate the vicious correlation between a lack of understanding and an internal tug-of-war.

Three little boys watch wearily and fearfully as their sister shimmies quickly up a tree to peer through the window of a dilapidated Southern farmhouse. Our attention focuses neither on her reaction to the festivities commencing in the house, nor on the danger suspended nervously in the dusky air as the tiny image worms up the tree trunk. Sensing the distress apparent in the boys’ words and actions, our eyes rivet to the same thing that fills their faces with apprehension—the dark and muddied stain of filth firmly planted on the bottom of the little girl’s underpants.

His grand-father, J.W.T. Falkner, inherited a railroad company, but instead of passing it on to his son whose “first and lasting love” was the railroad, he sold it for $75,000 (Minter 6-7). Young Faulkner and his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where his father, Murry, “a cold man whose ‘capacity for affection was limited,’” grew more and more bitter, drank whisky, and “remained distant and cautious” (Minter 9). The relationship between Faulkner’s father and his mother, who had probably married Murry Falkner thinking that he would eventually run the railroad company, became more and more strained. As the tension between them increased, Faulkner’s “father came more and more to regard him as his mother’s son” (Minter 9).

Adrian Flynn’s playwright “The Valley of the Fear”, adapted from the novel by Conan Doyle, demonstrates how the writer uses techniques to convey an impression of suspense and mystery through scenes with a high level of anticipation and uncertainty. Suspense is achieved through the use of literary devices and events that stimulate the viewer’s moods. Readers wait with anticipation for the next secret to be revealed in strong, sudden scenes. Furthermore, Doyle creates a sense of tension by never giving the reader an entire answer so they can make up their own mind about what’s happening.