William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury

Jeanette Walls had a sense of responsibility when her parents didn’t have any. When it came down to Walls’ younger sister she says, “At times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn’t keeping my promise that I’d protect her.” (Walls 206) Structure. Through misguided trials with the family the children picked up on things they knew or at least felt what a family should be and act like. She strives for protection.

Loyalty should be considered a quality that is supposed to keep family ties together and use the shield of bravery to protect it. It is proven that devotion in families of today, are lost and bravery shows no character in a person. It is a personality that each individual has in them only to be used in the most courteous way and should not be used selfishly. Loyalty cannot be purchased and must be earned. If it used in the wrong way, it can climax to a disaster.

The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, is an excellent representation of culture change in America during the 1920s. The interaction between the Black servants and their white employers portray a sense of the feeling that the South was going through because they knew that times were changing, aristocracy was slowly diminishing and Modernism was rapidly rising. One of the strongest characters in the novel is Dilsey, who narrates the last part of the novel. She is represented as a grandmother figure, a black servant to the Compson family. Dilsey was present when the Compson family rose to power and remains during their downward spiral. Dilsey also represents a deeper meaning for the novel, she represents the modern era which is

So much of what one learns about love is taught by people who never really loved in return. That was the case for the perturbed Dewey Dell and the relationship obtained with her mother Addie Bundren. Dewey Dell, the only daughter of Addie, is left alone to discover the social constructions that Addie went through. Addie, as a mother, is hardly ever represented and she never proclaims her “love” for her daughter. Through Dewey Dell’s future motherhood, language, and sexuality, she undergoes conflictions and discoveries without the help of her mother. Dewey Dell’s character signifies the defilement of future female generations living in a patriarchal society. Faulkner uses the disconnected relationship between Dewey Dell and Addie to demonstrate

Mr.__ has committed the ultimate crime against Celie: He has intentionally kept Celie separated from the only person in the world she loves and who loves her, Nettie. This knowledge gives Celie the ability to rise up in anger against her husband and no longer be victimized by him. “Now I Know Nettie alive I begin to strut a little bit.” (P 154) Encouraged by the self-confidence she has gained through her relationship with Smug, Celie lashes out on Mr.______ and follows Shug to Tennessee. From Nettie’s letters, Celie learns that Pa is not her actual father after all, another bit of knowledge that gives her strength. Celie finally takes control of her own life and

This quote not only demonstrates Quentin's concern for his dear sister Caddy, but traditional Southern values. First of all, it is evident that Quentin, much like Benji, cares deeply for Caddy. In contrast, however, Quentin's reaction to Caddy's loss of innocence isn't just sadness like Benji, but rather depression accompanied by rage. Throughout this chapter, memories of Caddy are strategically interjected. This particular quote, reflecting his fixation on Caddy's loss of virginity. He compares Caddy to an African American women, who at the time were viewed unfavorably

actions to show that no one will own or control him. He has no regard

The birth of the modernist movement in American literature was the result of the post-World War I social breakdown. Writers adopted a disjointed fragmented style of writing that rebelled against traditional literature. One such writer is William Faulkner, whose individual style is characterized by his use of “stream of consciousness” and writing from multiple points of view.

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.

In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, the image of honeysuckle is used repeatedly to reflect Quentin’s preoccupation with Caddy’s sexuality. Throughout the Quentin section of Faulkner’s work, the image of honeysuckle arises in conjunction with the loss of Caddy’s virginity and Quentin’s anxiety over this loss. The particular construction of this image is unique and important to the work in that Quentin himself understands that the honeysuckle is a symbol for Caddy’s sexuality. The stream of consciousness technique, with its attempt at rendering the complex flow of human consciousness, is used by Faulkner to realistically show how symbols are imposed upon the mind when experiences

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.

When Quentin see’s the italian girl who seemed to be lost and didn't speak english his only intention is to protect the girl and ensure she is treated in the right way. He had no sensual thoughts towards her consciously or subconsciously, he was only trying to do the right thing when he decided to help the little girl out. Although Quentin did have incentous thoughts towards Caddy, in no way did he have the intention of having sex with her. He thought that if he had an insentious relationship with Caddy and he would be able to save her from her sins and from society. Quentin helping the little girl symbolizes Quentin's desire to protect Caddy from impurity of lust which

One of the main realities of human existence is the constant, unceasing passage of time. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner explores this reality of time in many new and unexpected ways as he tells the tragic tail of the Compson family. The Compsons are an old Southern aristocratic family to whom time has not been kind. Years of degeneration mainly stemming from slavery have brought them to the brink of destruction. Most of the story focuses on the Compson children who are undergoing the worst of the social and moral decay. Each of the four children perceives time in a much different way but by far the strangest and most bizarre attitude toward time that is given in the text is held by

A few things to understand about this book are that there isn’t any character development, there is no solid plot or timeline, and there is not a deep theme. The title of the book, The Sound and the Fury, comes from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5). This book does not portray anything other than the tale of three fictional brothers and their kitchen maid as their family name falls from the top of the social ladder, and,like Shakespeare says, it signifies nothing. It gives an insight into what southern life was like between 1895 and 1928.

In William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury”, a family is shown as having many different issues that aren’t seen as well to outsiders. The family consists of the three brothers: Benjy Compson who suffers from a mental illness, Quentin Compson who is faced by suicidal thoughts, and Jason who centers his world around the effects of money. Along these brothers, Caddy Compson is their sister who throughout the book seems to cause each brother a fair amount of trouble. Besides the sibling’s parents, Dilsey the family’s black servant is shown as having an outside view of each of the family members unique issues. The first three chapters of the book are each of the brothers consciousnesses while the fourth is Dilsey’s consciousness. Faulkner portrays Quentin’s consciousness as a puzzle where you have to unravel the mystery of why he commits suicide. Quentin is trapped in an ontological crisis which ultimately leads to his demise because he feels as if he has to be apart of Caddy’s life, but he keeps on getting pushed out of it by different factors.