Tomorrow‚ and tomorrow‚ and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time‚ And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out‚ out‚ brief candle. 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: V.v.18-27) These Shakespearean verses lend William Faulkner the title of this novel
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“…His name’s Benjy now‚ Caddy Said. How come it is‚ Dilsey said…Benjamin came out of the bible‚ Caddy said. It’s a better name for him than Maury was. How come it is‚ Dilsey said. Mother says it is‚ Caddy said” (Faulkner 37). Benjy was previously named after Uncle Maury; however‚ Caroline thought that having a retarded boy named after him was a disgrace so Caroline
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virginity‚ which is at first an ecstasy and afterwards a loss‚ offering a “cold satisfaction” (372). Matthews writes that the characters are lost once they are written down in Faulkner’s view. That if Faulkner is writing the memories of Caddy he is in fact loosing Caddy himself as Caddy’s brothers had too. Matthews focuses on Jason and how loss has affected him in his “sane” eyes. Jason’s bad behaviour as a child depends when he reaches adulthood. He takes his loss to the pursuit of happiness through
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Family Stress in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury: The Role of the Mother Figure The Sound and the Fury‚ written by William Faulkner‚ and much like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse‚ works hard to capture each respected character’s individualistic experience‚ reality‚ and growth by the use of stream of consciousness. Though these literary titans would never meet‚ both of their works published around the same time and experimented with the same
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William Faulkner holds that man’s self-destructive complex will lead to their condemnation‚ and constructed the tale of the Compsons to illustrate how humanity will confront their demise. Caddy manifests stability so that the family may depend on her to keep its frail bonds from crumbling‚ despite her imminent lewdness depicted through water‚ and reminded to Quentin through honeysuckles. Quentin appears commonplace on the surface‚ however his inner soul rages with emulation‚ portrayed through the
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story‚ “Winter Dreams”‚ he suggests that the American Dream is a desire for glittery things. In the short story‚ it shows that Dexter wants a glittery lifestyle. When Dexter works for that lifestyle‚ there are promising results. When Dexter doesn’t work hard‚ not so promising. Just as in life‚ in order to achieve what you want‚ you have to work hard. In the short story‚ Dexter works hard to achieve Material Success. An example of this is when Dexter owned a laundromat
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reputation or wealth. Fitzgerald writes about a young man named Dexter; how he achieves the best. Starting off the short story‚ Dexter‚ a young caddy quits his job. Then he takes his own path to achieving a great life He makes the choices that are the best option for his future. Dexter was only fourteen years old when he became a caddy. Becoming a caddy was just for the money. His father owned the second-best grocery-store in Black Bear. His family already had money ‚ but Dexter wanted some extra
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but the strangest change had to be the change of the people‚ especially women. Women‚ like Caddy‚ were now becoming more and more dangerous by pushing the boundaries of fashion‚ of the female role in society‚ and even the motherly figure in women. Caddy was becoming more and more promiscuous. She was seeing many men‚ and she even had a child out of wedlock‚ which was unheard of in those days. Though Caddy was not the only example of the decline of the South‚ Benjy was as well. Benjy was by far
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Falkner uses many motifs in The Sound and the Fury. One that he uses is shadows. Shadow are mentioned all throughout Quentin’s section‚ June Second 1910‚ and in some of Benjy’s section‚ April Seventh 1928. In Quentin’s section‚ it says‚ “The shadow hadn’t quite cleared the stoop. I stopped inside the door‚ watching the shadow move. It moved almost perceptibly creeping back inside the door.”(The Sound and the Fury 81) Here he is talking about the shadows that he sees when he steps outside his door
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this idea of idealism in a negative sense saying that in reality the dream can never truly be achieved. I.Introduction A.American Dream Definition‚ American Dream Achievement‚ &Author ’s Life Connections B. Thesis II.Origin of Dream A.Dexter 1.Caddy at golf club 2.Meeting of Miss. Jones B.Fitzgerald 1.Army Camp 2.Denied Proposal III.Growth of Dream A.Dexter 1. Fame and Fortune 2.Courting B.Fitzgerald 1.Fame and Fortune 2.Marriage IV.Loss of Dream A.Dexter 1.Judy ’s Abusive Husband
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