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CHARACTER PARALLELS IN "THE SOUND AND THE FURY" AND "AS I LAY DYING."

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1973
Summary:
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) have often been considered as related works. It is my contention that As I Lay Dying is indeed a direct outgrowth of the earlier book and that it restates certain themes and exhibits several of the same personality types. A basic theme of the two books is the antithetical opposition of passive and active elements. Lesser themes are the opposition of words and deeds and the closely related opposition of individual freedom and the inability to achieve that freedom. Faulkner illustrates these themes through his characters. Parallel characters in the two novels are Caroline Compson and Anse Bundren, Caddy Compson and Addie Bundren, Miss Quentin and Jewel, and Quentin and Darl. In his presentation of the tension operating between these antithetical elements, Faulkner does not necessarily provide a resolution of that tension, but leaves conclusions to the reader.
Title: CHARACTER PARALLELS IN "THE SOUND AND THE FURY" AND "AS I LAY DYING.".
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Name(s): JACKSON, SANDRA I.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Coyle, William, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 77 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) have often been considered as related works. It is my contention that As I Lay Dying is indeed a direct outgrowth of the earlier book and that it restates certain themes and exhibits several of the same personality types. A basic theme of the two books is the antithetical opposition of passive and active elements. Lesser themes are the opposition of words and deeds and the closely related opposition of individual freedom and the inability to achieve that freedom. Faulkner illustrates these themes through his characters. Parallel characters in the two novels are Caroline Compson and Anse Bundren, Caddy Compson and Addie Bundren, Miss Quentin and Jewel, and Quentin and Darl. In his presentation of the tension operating between these antithetical elements, Faulkner does not necessarily provide a resolution of that tension, but leaves conclusions to the reader.
Identifier: 13579 (digitool), FADT13579 (IID), fau:10421 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--Sound and the fury
Faulkner, William,--1897-1962--As I lay dying
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