The traditional South‚ it was something that Faulkner could not help but to put into his crazy and chaotic book. In The Sound and The Fury‚ William Faulkner involves the decline of the South through some tragic and humorous characters and events. From the chaos of Benjy’s mind to the obsessive mind of Quentin and even the money driven and arrogant mind of Jason‚ Faulkner shows us how the Compson family represents the decline of the South. Falkner‚ having lived through the early 1900’s and even through
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William Faulkner suspects that man’s self-destructive nature will lead to doom‚ and constructed the parable of the Compson family in The Sound and The Fury to illustrate how the human race will react to confronting their demise. Caddy shows such strength that the entire family depends on her to keep its frail bonds from breaking‚ despite her looming promiscuity represented through water‚ and reminded to Quentin by honeysuckles. Quentin appears normal on the surface‚ but his inner soul rages with
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American Literature1900-1945 Innovative Techniques in The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury has been seen as an "example par excellence of modernist American fiction" (Cohen). Its publication represented a watershed in American literature as it introduced several modernist techniques among which: the destruction of chronological order‚ the division of the perspectives‚ the increased number of narrators‚ the free association technique‚ the stream of consciousness. I have selected
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In Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury Jason Compson was unintentionally cheated out of a prosperous future by his immediate self-absorbed family. Jason was born to two self envying parents‚ who cared more about themselves than their family. Mr. Compson‚ an alcoholic‚ drank himself to death. His wife force fed Jason hatred towards the family by singling him out as a Bascomb and not a Compson‚ therefore installing the mentality that he is different from his siblings and they are beneath him. Quentin
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characterize Benjy‚ who simply withdraws into himself. Finally‚ Jason becomes further encompassed with his cynicism and banking business to cloak the struggles of his relatives‚ and unconditionally scorns time. The recurring symbols found in The Sound and the Fury are more emblematic to the novel’s characters compared to any other work of classic American literature.
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In his novel‚ The Sound and the Fury‚ Faulkner employs the views of the three Compson sons: Benjy‚ Quentin‚ and Jason‚ as well as a third party view that centralizes around the family’s maid‚ Dilsey‚ in order to depict the slow and drawn out deterioration of their once dignified‚ well-respected family. Faulkner appears to have a specific perception of his characters and their relationships that he would like his readers to develop in reading the novel‚ specifically about Caddy as a central cause
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In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury‚ the writer explores the complicated relationship between members the Compson family‚ an aristocratic Southern family‚ and puts them against the backdrop of post-Civil War America‚ a time when concepts of politics‚ economics‚ and social order were rapidly changing. The novel itself it unique in its prose‚ which relies heavily on the first person stream-of-consciousness narration from its characters‚ but it’s also a story that heavily relies on its setting
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In the Sound and the Fury‚ the role of Mrs. Compson is perceived by the public as largely negative‚ one of the causes for the downfall of the aristocratic Compson family. However‚ Ulrike Nüssler’s scholarly article‚ published in William Faulkner: German Responses as the victim of Southern nobility‚ her behavior being the result of social pressures coming from her socioeconomic class. Nüssler’s argument is how Mrs. Compson’s frailty and hypochondria stem from the pressures put on her by the largely
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Faulkner’s masterful technique creates a first person look into the unraveling mind of a time obsessed boy. In The Sound and The Fury‚ by William Faulkner‚ Quentin Compson slings to the past and tries desperately to stay afloat. As the old order crumbles and sinks around him‚ Quentin has to make a choice whether to sink or to float. Like Quentin‚ Faulkner saw how society was changing‚ which is where he probably got the idea for the character. Faulkner took inspiration from his experiences growing
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The Fury Mrs Fletcher clenched and unclenched her hands at her sides‚ her eyes seeking wildly as the fury roared impotently in her. How dare he walk away from her like that! Mrs Fletcher‚ enraged with acrimony‚ stormed into the kitchen‚ her hands had started to drip with sweat from all the clasping she had done with such compulsion‚ she calmly drifted towards her silver basin where all the plates and cutlery had remained from last night’s meal. Mrs Fletcher gazed outside the casement above the basin
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