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Concepts: Absalom, Absalom!, Race, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Narrative, Black people

Anderson's View of The Grotesque

In “The Book of the Grosteques,” the first story of his novel Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson introduces the concept of the “grotesque.” This concept sets up the following stories in the novel, and can also be seen in other modernist texts following the publication of…

Mrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfWilliam Faulkner1 Page

Inherent nature of violence to the society

Hemingway’s In Our Time and Faulkner’s Light in August are both pieces of literature that revolve around violence. However, the authors’ treatments of violence contrast sharply. Hemingway focuses on culturally sanctioned forms of violence, while Faulkner focuses on more illicit violence. While Faulkner lays a…

Light In AugustWilliam Faulkner1 Page

“I am Telling”: Narrative and Identity in Absalom, Absalom!

Who says what – and how and when – may be the most compelling way William Faulkner constructs his characters in Absalom, Absalom! Storytelling is not just an act in which the saga of the Sutpens is recounted, revised, and even recreated; it is a…

Absalom AbsalomWilliam Faulkner10 Pages

A Land Called Doom: Fatalism in Faulkner

“Noah’s children had inherited the flood although they had not been there to see the deluge” (Go Down, Moses 276). This sense of doom follows through five of the major novels written by William Faulkner set in his mythic Yoknapatawpha County. Doom settles upon the…

Absalom AbsalomWilliam Faulkner9 Pages

Temptations Jesus Christ overcame and Truimphed

In William Faulkner’s novel Light in August, Joe Christmas is often depicted to be an almost Christ-like figure. There are many thematic similarities between the struggles Christmas goes through during his lifetime, and the struggles braved by Jesus as described by the Bible. One noticeable…

Light In AugustWilliam Faulkner1 Page

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner describes the peculiar life of Miss Emily, an unmarried and allegedly wealthy woman who is the talk of the town of Jefferson. Faulkner’s use of particular literary devices can be observed throughout the entire story. He carefully uses…

A Rose For EmilyWilliam Faulkner2 Pages

An Analysis of William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

In William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, first person narration is used in order to focus on Emily Grierson, a recluse who has captured the attention of the townspeople, and dictates the conversation, gossip, and action of the city. Faulkner uses a plethora of literary…

A Rose For EmilyWilliam Faulkner3 Pages

Blood is Thicker than Water, or is it?

In William Faulker’s short story “Barn Burning”, a struggle erupts when Abner Snopes expects his son, Colonel Sartoris, to ignore his personal moral obligations in order to protect the family honor after a crime is committed. In their small town of Yoknapatawpha County, Faulkner creates…

William Faulkner3 Pages

Unforgiving social standards and cues

In his novel Light in August, Faulkner presents one of his most biting critiques of religious and social intolerance in early twentieth-century society. Faulkner uses the fictional town of Jefferson to confront the presence of racism, sexuality, gender, and religious discrimination in his endemic state,…

Light In AugustWilliam Faulkner1 Page

“Mother Sister Wife”: An Evaluation of the Disparagement of Women and its Antagonistic Effects in Absalom, Absalom!

Deeply entrenched misogynistic attitudes pervaded the nineteenth century. Almost all men expected women to fill the role of mother, sister, or wife. They could not imagine and often actively worked against a society in which females could exist outside of these three main positions. William…

Absalom AbsalomWilliam Faulkner4 Pages