The Sound and the Fury Essay

Benjy is the first narrator out of four in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. He is unable to speak, so his story is told through his thoughts and memories. Despite Benjy’s mental limitations he is the most illuminating and most important narrator in the novel, as Faulkner intended. His memories reveal more in the story than any other narrator because he is able to remember without concealing information. Faulkner uses Benjy’s narration to build a foundation and pretense for the novel, creating

Quentin's Struggle in The Sound and the Fury       Too much happens...Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear.  That's how he finds that he can bear anything.         William Faulkner (Fitzhenry  12) In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, we are given a character known as Quentin, one who helps us more fully understand the words of the author when delivering his Nobel Prize acceptance speech "The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the

Critiques of Faulkner’s Sound and Fury After reading through a large chunk of criticism, it seems clear to me how David Minter, editor of our edition, hopes to direct the readers’ attentions. I was rather dumbstruck by the number of essays included in the criticism of this edition that felt compelled to discuss Faulkner and the writing of The Sound and the Fury seemingly more than to discuss the text itself. Upon going back over the essay, I realized that Minter’s own contribution, “Faulkner

In The Sound and the Fury, Benjy uses simple words and language, which emphasize his mental retardation and allows the readers to understand his mental state. Benjy’s section features simple sentences and a lack of punctuation which emphasize his uncomplicated ideas and word associations. His mind only allows him to respond to straightforward questions with animal-like sounds. Faulkner uses a simple language level to interpret Benjy’s simple

The Sound and the Fury is a classic Southern Gothic publication.Written by Faulkner it embodies the culmination of time, incest, moral code,virginity and suicide. This is what the author utilized to exhibit Southern Gothic. Quentin is the median that brought alive Southern Gothic. First, Quentin was obsessed with time but at the same moment did not want to acknowledge that time was passing. Faulkner displayed this in Quentin’s section. An example of this is when he went to the shop to repair his

The way a child behaves says a lot about their parents. In “The Sound and the Fury”, there is a lot to say about Caroline and Jason Compson. Their children, Quentin, Jason, Caddy, and Benjy, all have their own specialities, good and bad. These distinctions are ones that are direct products of the strange equation that makes the Compson family, yet are certainly not unique just to them. As a parent, you must take responsibility for the things that you teach your children, or don’t. As a result of

Heart's Darling: Faulkner and Womanhood      In William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury, Caddy Compson is the anchor character because Faulkner himself is so obsessed with her that he is unable bring her down off a platform enough to write words for her. Instead, he plays out his obsession by using her brothers as different parts of himself through which to play out his fantasies and interact with her. Faulkner writes himself into the novel by creating male characters

The Self-Destruction of Family in The Sound and the Fury Family. On a good day, family serves as the ultimate insurance policy: the unbreakable bond and love that everyone is supposed to share with their family will always be there when needed, in good times and in bad times. For the fortunate ones, they catch family on a good day. They have close and healthy relationships with their immediate family and stay in touch with their more extended relatives. For these families, this all contributes

a disability themselves, which in turn leads them to practice two cultures or life environments. In many cases the disabled individual has to learn the culture from other members of the particular community they are members of. In the film Sound and Fury we see what can be considered a

always issues that have to be overcome some time or another, but one has to understand and think through the chaos so that he or she is able to find peace within issues. Without structure, chaos becomes the atmosphere in which one lives. The Sound and the Fury illustrates this concept of confusion and lack of structure in the Compson family as it tells a story told four different ways, by four different characters who are all describing past and present issues in their lives. In the home of the Compson’s