A Psychological View of Benjy ’s Mental Retardation Benjamin Compson‚ a character from The Sound and the Fury‚ is the youngest child of Jason and Caroline Compson who has round the clock supervision. His keepers say‚ "he been three years old thirty years" (Faulkner 17). Mental retardation is a condition that is associated with a person who develops slowly. "The label mentally retarded is applied when someone is significantly below average in general intellectual functioning (IQ less than 70)
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influence of Caddy on all her family members. Caddy as Faulkner’s symbol of the
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own existence as a whole. He is also not completely free. We have to have the will and the understanding of our own freedom before we can will for the freedom of others. In The Sound and the Fury‚ the past is what keeps this family from being free. Caddy becomes physically free when she leaves her life and home behind and runs away. She leaves her family stuck in the facticity of her disappearance though. They have no will to be free as they become trapped in the past‚ like mentioned before especially
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Even though she did not ask for help. Another example could be when he was trying to have sex with Natalie in the barn‚ in spite of Caddy. “I don’t care she looked at us stay mad she went away.” (Faulkner‚ page 136) An example of Quentin being aggressive can be found on the next page‚ where he begins fighting Caddy because she says she does not care what Quentin does. “ You dont you dont I’ll make you I’ll make you give a damn. She hit my hands away I smeared mud on her
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"What is it." Caddy said. "Did you think it wold be Christmas when I came home from school. Is that what you thought. Christmas is the day after tomorrow. Santy Claus‚ Benjy. Santy Claus. Come on‚ let’s run to the house and get warm." She took my hand and we ran through the bright rustling leaves. " This quote reveals two very important aspects of the novel. First‚ Benjamin’s lack of a concept of time‚ and secondly how vivid and endearing his memories of his sister Caddy are. Benjamin‚ who is mentally
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do not need the money from Caddy because their pride is held higher than their financial
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William Faulkner suspects that man’s self-destructive nature will lead to doom‚ and constructed the parable of the Compson family in The Sound and The Fury to illustrate how the human race will react to confronting their demise. Caddy shows such strength that the entire family depends on her to keep its frail bonds from breaking‚ despite her looming promiscuity represented through water‚ and reminded to Quentin by honeysuckles. Quentin appears normal on the surface‚ but his inner soul rages with
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These moments usually focus on either his sister Caddy‚ his father‚ or his mother. The most poignant moment of run-on that occurs is Quentin reflecting on his mother‚ and how she was quick to play the pity card. For over 2 pages‚ Quentin’s stream-of-consciousness is focused on phrases his mother was often
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the novel. Although Benjy is severely mentally retarded‚ he is capable of some things. He recognizes different people‚ especially his caretakers. He also always knows Caddy. Benjy becomes attached to Caddy as he grows up because she is always kind and caring to him. Caddy is always able to calm Benjy down when he gets upset. When Caddy leaves the story‚ she is usually the reason why Benjy gets so upset. The capabilities of Benjy are important to the story because he provides an objective view of
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section‚ Quentin resorts to suicide as his last attempt to stop time. Caddy‚ the only daughter of the four Compson children in the novel‚ is never given her own section to tell her side of the story. Given this‚ we are left to depend on the viewpoints of her three other brothers to see what she is really like. Throughout the novel‚ Caddy is characterized as either a sweet little girl or as very promiscuous. Whenever Caddy is given the certain portrayal of innocence‚ she is referred to have the
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