our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out‚ out‚ brief candle. Life ’s but a walking shadow‚ a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage‚ And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot‚ full of sound and fury‚ Signifying nothing. (Macbeth: V.v.18-27) These Shakespearean verses lend William Faulkner the title of this novel‚ and speak of the philosophy behind it. In this soliloquy‚ Macbeth implies that the life is only a shadow of the past. He idealizes
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The Fury Mrs Fletcher clenched and unclenched her hands at her sides‚ her eyes seeking wildly as the fury roared impotently in her. How dare he walk away from her like that! Mrs Fletcher‚ enraged with acrimony‚ stormed into the kitchen‚ her hands had started to drip with sweat from all the clasping she had done with such compulsion‚ she calmly drifted towards her silver basin where all the plates and cutlery had remained from last night’s meal. Mrs Fletcher gazed outside the casement above the basin
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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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Caroline and Quentin Compson: A struggle with mental illness. Throughout Quentin’s section‚ in The Sound and the Fury the reader is given a plethora of past memories‚ along with Quentin’s current day. And‚ even more so‚ the reader is given the feeling that something is not quite right with Quentin. Rightfully so‚ as in different the different sections of book‚ it is mentioned (and cruelly joked about by Jason) that Quentin kills himself. Although there is believed to be many reasons that could’ve
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The Use of Stream of Consciousness in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Abstract Writers of the first decades of the twentieth century became fascinated by the inner lives of teeming impressions ‚ and by the mental activities of meaning – making which constitute our private inner lives. The works of Irish writer James Joyce are distinguished by their keen psychological insight and use of various literary techniques; most notably "stream of consciousness" which is an attempt
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Quentin’s neurosis: a psychoanalytic interpretation On looking at The Sound and The Fury‚ Faulkner’s fourth novel ‚ through the lens of psychoanalytic discourse‚ we may easily discover that this novel keenly deals with the various psychoanalytical and psycho-sexual problems of the Compsons family; as a matter of fact‚ Benjy is a congenital moron‚ Quentin suffers from neurosis and melancholia‚ and Jason is a monomaniac. However‚ of the three brothers‚ Quentin deserves our special
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The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner‚ is full of family connections that allows one to deeper understand the time period of the book. Although the family does not really work together‚ each character has a reason to be in the family. Although‚ the character‚ Caddy Compson never has her own section in the novel‚ telling her side of the story‚ she is one of the most important characters that truly helps‚ confuses‚ and changes the course of the novel. Caddy is seen as a promiscuous lady whom does
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Chapter 1: Consciousness What is consciousness?: • The awareness of our internal and external environments is an ever-changing array of thoughts‚ feelings and sensations known as consciousness. • Your consciousness consists of all the thoughts‚ feelings and memories you are aware of at any given moment. It is easy to manipulate. • Consciousness is personal because it consists of your understanding of the world around you. • Consciousness is selective because you pay attention to something’s
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Family Stress in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury: The Role of the Mother Figure The Sound and the Fury‚ written by William Faulkner‚ and much like Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse‚ works hard to capture each respected character’s individualistic experience‚ reality‚ and growth by the use of stream of consciousness. Though these literary titans would never meet‚ both of their works published around the same time and experimented with the same
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Consciousness refers to your individual awareness of your unique thoughts‚ memories‚ feelings‚ sensations and environment. Your conscious experiences are constantly shifting and changing. Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It has been defined as: sentience‚ awareness‚ subjectivity‚ the ability to experience or to feel‚ wakefulness‚ having a sense of selfhood‚ and the executive control system of the mind. Despite the difficulty
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