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    “The Sound and the Fury” is a novel full of literary devices used to portray the crazy lives of the Compson family. Symbolism is used heavily throughout, and helps to explain what goes through each character’s mind as they trudge through many life experiences. The two symbols that stuck out the most would have to be the clock symbolizing time, and Dilsey symbolizing Jesus. As the clock ticks, days come and go and time passes by. On Earth, every society revolves around clocks whether it be at work

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    isn’t too formal, neither is my writing. After several hours of listening and trying to decipher William Faulkner’s work “The Sound and the Fury”, one experiences an epiphany that he cannot read. The determined also known as the student has to continue on the quest to fulfill his high school education though. Caddy Compson, the most important character in The Sound and the Fury, is rather rare in that both in writing and in the book. It’s rather abnormal for a writer never to share the central character’s

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    The book Sounds & Fury: The science and politics of global warming, By Patrick J. Michaels. The book is mainly about how global warming is affecting our country as we speak. Michaels talks about how greenhouse gas emissions are ultimately changing the atmosphere along with changing the temperature which will eventually harm us humans. He also states plans we could do using taxpayers money to help slow the global warming problem. The book talks about how over the last decades how the atmospheric temperature

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    The Sound and the Fury Title:      The title of this novel is The Sound and the Fury. This title is derived from one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, Macbeth. Within Macbeth, Shakespeare describes life as “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury.” And if life is “a tale told by an idiot,” there is justification as to of why Faulkner begins the book through the eyes of Benjy, a thirty-three year old retard. Author:      The author

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    THE SOUND AND THE FURY William Faulkner's background influenced him to write the unconventional novel The Sound and the Fury. One important influence on the story is that Faulkner grew up in the South. The Economist magazine states that the main source of his inspiration was the passionate history of the American South, centered for him in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, where he lived most of his life. Similarly, Faulkner turns Oxford and its environs, "my own little postage stamp of native

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    The Sound and the Fury This novel revolves around the rise and the fall of the aristocratic 19th century Southern Compsons that advocated conventional Southern values. In that dynamism and the muting family norms, the rival upsurge was the changing role of men and women. This is true, as men used to enjoy their authority, dominance, power, masculinity, valiancy, virtuous strength, determination, and courtliness over women and in the society while the role played by the women was similar to putting

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    novel using the words from Macbeth as the cornerstone of his work. Throughout The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner uses various literary devices such as irony, foreshadowing, stream of consciousness, symbolism, allusion, setting, and point of view to create a brilliant novel. The most significant device is symbolism with the noise of one character and the fury of another opening Faulkner’s work, The Sound and the Fury.

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    William Faulkner’s novel, The Sound and the Fury, exemplifies the very meaning of an internal conflict between order and chaos through the forlorn and tragic character, Quentin Compson. Although Quentin is displayed with an outward appearance that can be described as orderly, it is apparent through his chaotic thoughts that he is overwhelmed by his ardent views on the Compson family’s honor, which was destroyed when Caddy lost her virginity. Throughout Quentin’s section, the descriptions of his

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    4-Lack of Human Commitment Modernist literature also investigates the human relationship and commitment in the time of spiritual death. Relationship became very superficial and real love faded away. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury this has been very well depicted. The Compson children longed the love that was absent in the family. Mrs. Compson was lost in her hypochondriac attitude and did not pay attention to any of them except Jason. Which caused Quentin’s famous line, “if I’d just had a mother

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    The Sound and the Fury: Chronology of Despair Three little boys watch wearily and fearfully as their sister shimmies quickly up a tree to peer through the window of a dilapidated Southern farmhouse. Our attention focuses neither on her reaction to the festivities commencing in the house, nor on the danger suspended nervously in the dusky air as the tiny image worms up the tree trunk. Sensing the distress apparent in the boys’ words and actions, our eyes rivet to the same thing that fills their

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