This is the question William Faulkner explored in his 1929 novel titled "The Sound and the Fury". ... With this disorder in structure in the writing of "The Sound and the Fury", Faulkner paints a picture of total chaos. ... "I was in time again" are words from the leading paragraph that introduces Quentin's section of "The Sound and the Fury" (Faulkner 87). ... William Faulkner uses the three brothers in "The Sound and the Fury" to represent another aspect of time. ... Faulkner's three brothers in "The Sound and the Fury" represents the road he believes modern man to be trav...

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The Sound And The Fury was written by William Faulkner in 1929. Faulkner was born in Mississippi and grew up in the South. ... The fall of the family name symbolizes the region in the South during the time period of Faulkner's life. The book also gives off the feeling that Faulkner believed that life was without meaning, and in the end time only brought defeat. ... William Faulkner wrote this story from several different characters points of view. ...

• Word Count: 532
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• Grade Level: High School

Of all of Faulkner's achievements, "The Sound and the Fury" is considered to be one of his greatest novels. Faulkner was part of a distinguished family in Mississippi. ... Faulkner wrote three novels before finishing "The Sound and the Fury" and two more the year it was finished, 1929. ... Faulkner wrote seventeen books set in Yoknapatwapha County, which is a fictional setting formed in Faulkner's imagination. This is the home of the Compson family in "The Sound and the Fury". ...

• Word Count: 658
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Throughout William Faulkner's novel, The Sound and The Fury, the symbolism of flowers can mean many different things. ... When Caddy becomes pregnant and she is going to be married Faulkner writes, "She ran right out of the mirror, out of the banked scent. ... Roses can symbolize love and lust, however Faulkner takes it in somewhat of the same direction but with a twist. ... Faulkner creates a consisted trend of flowers that persists throughout the book. ... Flowers are the color of Faulkner's fictional world of, The Sound and the Fury, and persist to filled the characters heads...

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Equipped with suspense, frustration, and even pity, William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury is a novel one needs to have patience and concentration to comprehend. ... Although Faulkner's novel has its strengths, there are also a few weaknesses. ... For example, Faulkner would begin a sentence in the present time then switch mid-sentence to June of 1910 (in Quentin's case). ... To sum up, William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury is a complex novel, forcing its reader to have total concentration. ...

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Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury are two totally different novels that were written during two totally different time periods by two totally different authors. ... The Compson family of The Sound and the Fury, while displaced from the harsh environment of the city, still has serious problems within the walls of their country home. ... Faulkner and Morrison each utilize these characters to highlight the main points of each novel. ... It is very possible that what Faulkner may actually be trying to say is that the Compson family itself...

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William Faulkner's background influenced him to write the unconventional novel The Sound and the Fury. ... In writing The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner pays no attention to normal literary work. ... This background, together with a believable plot, convincing characterization and important literary devices enables William Faulkner in The Sound and the! Fury to deve! ... The structure of The Sound and the Fury leaves much to be desired. ...

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Although Faulkner wrote many novels such as Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury, his intuition into the lives of people around him is clearly seen in his shorter stories. ... Faulkner dropped out of school many times and lost many jobs because of his constant writing. ... In Red Leaves Faulkner tells a story Native Americans who own slaves on their plantation. ... Faulkner captured the popular essence of gossip in this story, which is actually very realistic because people often talk about each other in small towns like the one Faulkner grew up in and explained in A Rose for Emily. ...

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Within the same month, Faulkner began The Sound and The Fury, which would later become his greatest novel (Minter 72). ... • Faulkner, William. ... The Achievement of William Faulkner. ... William Faulkner: His Life and Work. ... A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner. ...

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In "The Sound and The Fury", anxieties over newly emerging race relations are displaced onto sexuality and a preoccupation with sexual and familial purity. ... The Sound and the Fury is a brilliantly crafted modernistic masterpiece written by William Faulkner in the 1930's. ... Such parallels can lead the reader to conclude that Faulkner created Benjy's character to demonstrate the goodness in the Compsons and the possibility of a saviour bringing peace and forgiveness to a suffering family. ...

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The Sound and the Fury is an interesting story that, at times, is very difficult to read. ... The story continues to grow through the memories of each character and this is why Faulkner has difficulties trying to end it. ...

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Faulkner added theu? ... Faulkner's great-grandfather, Colonel William C. ... Faulkner established himself as a major novelist in 1929 with the book The Sound and the Fury (Larinde). ... William Faulkner?). ... (Faulkner 181). ...

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William Meyer offered an intriguing analysis of Faulkner's language and its connection to Faulkner's southern background. ... Faulkner, on the other hand, sticks to his innate and obsessive Southern lyricism, promoting "aurality" over vision in such great novels as The Sound and The Fury and Light in August. ... The narrator is also very poetic; in the above quotation and many others throughout Barn Burning he invokes sounds, feelings, smells and many other elements that play on the readers" all five senses. ... (Faulkner 148). ... One of the obvious explanations is the categorizatio...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

William Faulkner does not always indict Christianity. For example, in the final section of The Sound and the Fury, Dilsey draws solace and comfort from the church service. ... At other times, Faulkner does subject Christianity to scathing ridicule. ... Faulkner exposes the potential for hypocrisy within Christianity. ... But Faulkner chooses to position it almost immediately afterwards. ...

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Faulkner's great-grandfather, Colonel William C. ... Faulkner established himself as a major novelist in 1929 with the book The Sound and the Fury (Larinde). ... "Faulkner's A Rose for Emily." ... h Faulkner, William. ... "Biography of William Faulkner." ...

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The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner, takes place April of the year nineteen twenty-eight, in rural Mississippi. ... In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner uses Jason, the son, to illustrate a perpetrator of the seven deadly sins. ... After the two of them exchanged words, Jason threatened Quentin by saying, "I don't care what you do myself,"" but "I've got a position in this town, and I'm not going to have any member of my family going on like a nigger wench- (Faulkner 189) . ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The events of the first half of the twentieth century are seen quite differently today from the way they were seen at the time. Historians describe the period between 1914 and 1945 as a birth of mass culture, resulting in fresh forms of popular expression. During World War I and II, the making of...

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While other writers of the era conveyed modern ideas in form and style, such as William Faulkner's multiple narrators and stream-of-consciousness format displayed in The Sound and Fury, Thomas and Auden radiated modern thought through their ideas and subject matter. ... Thomas writes, "And Mister they called Hey mister the truant boys from the town running when he had heard them clearly on out of sound past lake and rockery laughing when he shook his paper hunchbacked in mockery dodging the park keeper" (lines 15-23). ...

• Word Count: 1641
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate