William Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha novels" helped to cement his reputation as a great 20th century American novelist of the 20th century. These novels, including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936) share certain characters and loc...
William Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha novels" helped to cement his reputation as a great 20th century American novelist of the 20th century. These novels, including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936) share certain characters and locations and explore moral themes related to the southern United States following the Civil War. In this paper, I discuss these works as they represent elements of tragic form. In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner places the Compson family in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by the Civil War and Reconstruction, and highlights the conflict between the corrupt values of the old South and modern reality. The disintegration of the binding force of mutual love is viewed through the male characters, who are unable to experience romantic love, and female characters such as Mrs. Compson, with her emotional distance from her children. These characters are juxtaposed with the character of Caddy, whose ability to love is evident but who is ultimately disowned by the family. The novel's nonlinear structure also highlights the subjective interpretation of time. The fragmented text and multitude of perspectives seen in the stream-of-consciousness style of As I Lay Dying involve the reader in an active construction of the narrative, and emphasize the psychological strain within the Bundren family following the death of Addie Bundren. Its characters are posed with questions of being and identity, and the novel's conclusion draws further attention to the fragility of human existence. The focus in Light in August falls on the characters who occupy the fringes of society, such as Byron Bunch, Lena Grove and Joe Christmas. The former two characters are the only ones who effectively realize the roots of their own alienation, while the latter is characterized by an ambiguous racial identity and a problematic relationship with those with whom he interacts that ultimately explodes in rage and violence. Within this novel, Faulkner explores issues such as gender and race, as well as more fundamental issues of identity and the influences of historical and social forces on the individual. Absalom, Absalom! finds Faulkner focusing his energies on revealing the moral conflicts instrumental in the fall of the South. He uses a variety of perspectives to explore the relationship between his characters and the past as it is reconstructed in each character's mind. Characters such as the powerful Thomas Sutpen, as well as Quentin Compson and Rosa Coldfield, give evidence of the inability to give a truthful recreation of the past, instead providing a revised version that is constantly informed by the present. The character of Quentin suggests an allegorical relationship between the story of Thomas Sutpen and events within the history of the southern United States. In these works, Faulkner uses his experimental style to present the reader with the challenge of reconciling a variety of contradictory feelings. The focus is on the connectedness between various forms of human experience.
William Faulkner's "Yoknapatawpha novels" helped to cement his reputation as a great 20th century American novelist of the 20th century. These novels, including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936) share certain characters and locations and explore moral themes related to the southern United States following the Civil War. In this paper, I discuss these works as they represent elements of tragic form. In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner places the Compson family in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by the Civil War and Reconstruction, and highlights the conflict between the corrupt values of the old South and modern reality. The disintegration of the binding force of mutual love is viewed through the male characters, who are unable to experience romantic love, and female characters such as Mrs. Compson, with her emotional distance from her children. These characters are juxtaposed with the character of Caddy, whose ability to love is evident but who is ultimately disowned by the family. The novel's nonlinear structure also highlights the subjective interpretation of time. The fragmented text and multitude of perspectives seen in the stream-of-consciousness style of As I Lay Dying involve the reader in an active construction of the narrative, and emphasize the psychological strain within the Bundren family following the death of Addie Bundren. Its characters are posed with questions of being and identity, and the novel's conclusion draws further attention to the fragility of human existence. The focus in Light in August falls on the characters who occupy the fringes of society, such as Byron Bunch, Lena Grove and Joe Christmas. The former two characters are the only ones who effectively realize the roots of their own alienation, while the latter is characterized by an ambiguous racial identity and a problematic relationship with those with whom he interacts that ultimately explodes in rage and violence. Within this novel, Faulkner explores issues such as gender and race, as well as more fundamental issues of identity and the influences of historical and social forces on the individual. Absalom, Absalom! finds Faulkner focusing his energies on revealing the moral conflicts instrumental in the fall of the South. He uses a variety of perspectives to explore the relationship between his characters and the past as it is reconstructed in each character's mind. Characters such as the powerful Thomas Sutpen, as well as Quentin Compson and Rosa Coldfield, give evidence of the inability to give a truthful recreation of the past, instead providing a revised version that is constantly informed by the present. The character of Quentin suggests an allegorical relationship between the story of Thomas Sutpen and events within the history of the southern United States. In these works, Faulkner uses his experimental style to present the reader with the challenge of reconciling a variety of contradictory feelings. The focus is on the connectedness between various forms of human experience.
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