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    William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury 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

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    and Desire in The Sound and the Fury   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

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    She Endured The characters in The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, are psychologically complex, haunted, prone to spells of vanity and desires, and ultimately tragic. Always one to play the role of the noble Southern gentleman, Quentin Compson III is passionate and neurotic, consumed with the ideal Southern values of chivalry and honor. Quentin is tormented by his father’s nihilistic philosophy and degradation of women and African Americans, as Jason Compson III provides no moral

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    William Styron, who wrote Sophie's Choice, sought out other novels to appreciate an author's thematic and stylistic choices. One of the novels which Styron admired was Sound and Fury, by William Faulkner. Styron embraced some of Faulkner's approach to writing and this can be seen by juxtaposing both Sophie's Choice and Sound and Fury. Love and guilt are major topics which both novels share. These emotions are felt by humans everyday, but having too much of both of these elements can prove to be negative

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    relationship between Father and the Fury. Boyne briefly explores this relationship during a literary flashback. The dialogue where Father states how he has "no choice" demonstrates to the reader how, like Bruno, Father was afraid of the repercussions which would occur by going against the 'rules' set in place by the Fury. This is the basis of the tactic used by hijackers asking for ransom money, they instil fear in their victims to ensure that they will obey as Father obeys the Fury by moving to Out-With. Consequently

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    In the novel,'Boy In the Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne the author discusses detail and relevant text about characters feelings, expressions, and thoughts towards certain situations. He tends the readers to understand what the characters face throughout the novel by expressing their emotions and actions. There are many events when John Boyne has shown this type of purpose, in his novel. For instance, he mentioned several times at the start of the book how much hatred did Bruno have for Out-With.

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    The Fury

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    This book takes place in the early 1900s, where there is a boy named Bruno who has grown up in a rich family in Berlin. His father is a very important man, and one night “the Fury” invites himself over for dinner. Over the course of the book, there are many pieces of implied information. One chapter goes back and replays “the Fury’s” visit with them, and as Bruno is standing there waiting for his dismissal to his room, he is thinking about how the man is on the shorter side of men and has a tiny

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    John Boyne has created a sophisticated and meaningful novel in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas through his thematic analysis of power which explores society’s perception of authority; his symbolic representation of the fence which starkly exposes Bruno’s ignorance of cultural divisions; and finally, his characterisation of Mother revealing the fraught atmosphere during the Holocaust. The theme of power is explored in this novel through authoritative figures and their presentation in society.The

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    Fury Symbolism

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    perspective, judging by one’s character. Specifically, in the movie Fury, the directors used a little blood, gore, violence, and even sentiment to show everything that war consists of, The particular war that the movie is portraying is World War Two. From combining the bond of soldiers to the gruesome conditions in which they fight, Fury provides an accurate representation on one of the most memorable wars of all time. Overall, Fury is an eye-opening, yet gory cinema that doesn’t hold back to show

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    Justice In Fury

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    Fury is the latest movie from director David Ayer, who also directed the films: End of Watch, Sabotage, and Street Kings. Fury is defined as a wild or violent anger, or a spirit of punishment from Greek Mythology. After seeing this movie, I now have a slightly different interpretation. I now define fury as the uncontrollable rage of anger from a righteous man attempting to achieve justice for the lost and the departed. In Fury a 5 man Sherman tank unit from the United States embarks on a mission

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