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Compton in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! And The Sound and the Fury

them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...

William Faulkner's Writings and Fire Symbolism

In thirteen pages this paper discusses the fire symbolism featured in William Faulkner's Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, ...

William Faulkner's Portrayal of Family

In five pages family dysfunction and its disintegration as represented in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! and The Sound and t...

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Past in Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

This paper examines the important role the past plays in Absalom, Absalom! a 1936 novel by William Faulkner in six pages. There a...

Sutpen's Character in Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

to acquire land that turns a profit from their constant toil. "...The land is made habitable and profitable for him by the black ...

Significance of Women in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

A look at Faulkner's Absalom Absalom and Wild Palms

the wealth that lingers in the background. Yet, this rags to riches story includes murder and mayhem and the fact that Sutpen earn...

The Rebellion and Absalom

helpful to examine how the Bible portrays both of these men. The story of Absalom is covered in the second book of Samuel, and beg...

Characters in All the King's Men vs. The Sound and the Fury

success is also her own. Jacks mother dotes on him, and in turn, she becomes the center of his universe. However, Jacks mother a...

Mature Style of William Faulkner

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

Roles and Rights of Women in Works by Kate Chopin and William Faulkner

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

Time: The Sound and the Fury and The Waste Land

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

Women in The Sound and the Fury Faulkner's Femme Fatale Caddy Compson

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner's Presentation of Logical Tragedy

In nine pages this paper examines the necessary logical sequence that evolves in the tragedies of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms a...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

Escaping into Nature Through Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

Life and Writings of William Faulkner

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

Moral Value and Women in the Works of William Faulkner

In five pages this paper examines the moral value and depiction of women in William Faulkner's Sanctuary, The Unvanquished, As I L...

Ordering and Montage in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

In five pages this pape examines how William Faulkner's splicing montage techniques are applied to presenting a family's many comp...

Sam Shepard and William Faulkner on Family Dysfunction

In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...

William Faulkner's Narrative Perspectives in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's Novels Light in August and The Sound and the Fury

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

Minor Characters in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...

Southern Literature and Themes of Communication Lacks and Self Absorption

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

Huck Finn and Sound and Fury, A Comparison

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

Comparative Analysis of the Characters in Works by William Faulkner and John Steinbeck

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and the Technique of Stream of Consciousness

struggle to find order among chaos (Monarch Notes PG). There was a definite method to the madness of Faulkners writing, and its n...

William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Modernism

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...