The Sound and the Fury is a look at the Southern aristocracy and how their status deteriorated after the Civil War. Faulkner uses the Compson family to show the pride of the people and their slow downfall from innocence to guilt to bitterness. It is a story of the people and how their relationships affect everyone around them and shape generations.
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Falkner (he added the u to his last name in 1919) was born into a prominent Southern family on September 25, 1897. He spent his childhood...
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William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to releas...
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In explaining the comic side of William Faulkner's fiction, it soon becomes apparent how indivisible it is from the tragic side and how the two are almost inextricably intertwined. Early critics who m...
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William Faulkner, one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century, was also a screenwriter. The first of four brothers, he was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the son of Murry Cuthbert a...
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William Faulkner was first and foremost a novelist, and much of his achievement in the short-story form is closely related to his accomplishment as a novelist. This does not necessarily imply that hi...
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William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major American 20th-century novelist, chronicled the decline and decay of the aristocratic South with an imaginative power and psychological depth that transcend mere r...
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Biography EssayWilliam Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as r...
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What is the definition of madness? A definition offered in a dictionary is "mental delusion or the eccentric behavior arising from it. " That question appeared in the minds of those who read The Sou...
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The Sound and the fury
Faulkner's novel, The Sound and the Fury, shows the decline of a well-established and well-known southern aristocratic family. The novel's main focuses are the moral decay of t...
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In speaking of stream of consciousness in "The Sound and the Fury," one must take into account a few factors. Amongst them, confusion of chronology and dislocated time sequences are the most important...
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The first half of the nineteenth century saw the rise of a number of prominent Southern families such as the Compsons. These aristocratic families lived by very traditional Southern values. Men were e...
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner found himself, in many ways an architect as well as a writer. It was important to him that the reader find an underlying meaning in The Sound and the Fury an...
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The Sound and the Fury
William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury