for living was no more than a preparation for death. Addie felt that during her whole life she had been neglected‚ and when she married Anse‚ she hoped that things would eventually change. She is very afraid of aloneness. When she knew that she was pregnant‚ she felt that at last her aloneness had been penetrated‚ especially through child birth. Addie hated Anse; that’s why she wants to be buried in Jefferson‚ with her own family‚ rather than with Anse’s. Addie wasn’t exactly an ideal person for
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Faulkner’s diction‚ point of view‚ and syntax in his polyphonic novel‚ As I Lay Dying‚ strategically employs the miserably pessimistic yet juvenile voice of Dewey Dell to characterize her as the novel’s naïve victim. The only surviving female in the Bundren family‚ Faulkner presents the hardships that Dewey Dell must endure. In addition‚ as an uneducated girl with no guidance‚ Dewey Dell experiences an uncertainty in many issues that arise in her life. Dewey Dell’s diction in As I Lay Dying functions
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William Faulkner in his book "As I Lay Dying" portrays a Mississippi family which goes through many hardships and struggles. Faulkner uses imagery to illustrate an array of central themes such as the conscious being or existence and poverty among many others. From the first monologue‚ you will find and indulgence of sensual appeal‚ they are a strong aspect through out the novel. Each character develops stronger and stronger by their passages. One of the themes in As I Lay Dying is a Human’s relations
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Dying ENGLISH 215 October 31‚ 2011 William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying centers on the absurd journey that the Bundren family takes to Jefferson to bury their dead mother‚ Addie. Faulkner frames this journey through the lens of various narrators with a specific focus on the characters’ innermost thoughts and deep interior monologues. Although the novel’s plot revolves around the Bundren family‚ characters outside of the family are essential to provide an objective view. Without these outside characters
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to himself with a smirk scrolled across his face. And I’m the crazy one they say. Hahahahahahahaha. They are the loons that should be locked up in this sanitarium. Vardaman’s mother is a fish. Jewel’s mother is a horse. I have not a mother. Addie Bundren is was. Now in a coffin. Was in a bed. The nurse hesitantly unlocks the small room and sets a blue plastic tray on the floor. She eagerly locks the chamber and repeats the process as she walks down the hall. Darl pushes the overused tray across the
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hated her other children. It was later revealed that Jewel was not Anse’s son which is the reason why Addie loved Jewel more than the other four. She felt as if her other children belonged to Anse‚ and the only reason she had them was because that was her duty as a wife. With Jewel‚ it was a lot different. Since Anse was not Jewel’s father‚ he had no ownership over him. That being said‚ this makes us wonder if Jewel is so different than the others because he has a different father. Having a different
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Harmon McCoy. Asa Harmon McCoy‚ was despised by The Hatfields’s for joining the Union army. He was discharged early and sent home due to a broken leg. Upon returning home he was told that he would be receiving a visit from Devil Anse Hatfield‚ who despised him. Devil Anse was a party of a local group called the County Wildcats. They were a local milita group‚ with mostly members of the Hatfield family. One day Asa Harmon McCoy was getting water from his well‚ and he heard gunshots‚ so he ran to
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In the novel‚ As I Lay Dying‚ by William Faulkner‚ Addie’s passage is used to convey the idea that words cannot be exchanged for actions and the artificialness of language. Faulkner demonstrates that words often fail to connect‚ how words are used to imitate experience and the significance of actions over words. In this passage‚ Faulkner uses Addie’s own experiences with language to show her difficulty in communicating with the school children through language. In addition to the struggle to communicate
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Intuitive Yet Institutionalized In life‚ if a person is considered strange‚ different‚ or simply not the “norm”‚ they are immediately out casted and ostracized. Even though that specific person could be a genius or misunderstood they do not have the opportunity to show who they really are because his or her society may not care at all. The authors Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner show‚ in their works‚ that sometimes the people with the greatest differences are the most insightful. This
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perversely enough‚ in a novel composed of nothing but words. Faulkner reveals the limitations of language by contrasting the thoughts of his characters with their actual words‚ and their constant groping for meaning and adequate expression. Addie Bundren is the one character who openly acknowledges the issue that all the characters face‚ and she is the only who to reject language: “(W)ords are no good… words dont ever
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