Morals And Religion In As I Lay Dying By William Faulkner

As I Lay Dying By William Faulkner, is a novel about the short time leading up to, and the aftermath of the death of a dear mother, mistress, and neighbor. Addie Bundren was the (unwanted) mother to Darl, Cash, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman Bundren, and also the mother to the bastard child Jewel. Directly following her death, by Addie’s previously arranged request, the entire family sets off on a quest to bury Addie, in a town named Jefferson, so she can be laid to rest aside her mother and father. Being set in a rural, southern area in the 1920s, religion plays a very large roll in the telling of this dysfunctional family story; but maybe not exactly in the usual way. Rather than using religion to create a basis for strong morals, they misuse it to disregard those exact morals. The members of this family take God 's word, and alter the meaning of what is being said, to better …show more content…
Even though he never really discussed his connection with God, I see him to have the strongest morals. Although morals and religion are two very different things, many would argue that those that grow up with religion, or are religious in their adult life, would have much more sound morals than those who never had religion at all. Cash expressed these strong morals in his dedication to constructing his mother 's casket exactly the way she wanted it. Even after the family was on the journey the Jefferson, and he had a broken leg, he never wanted to slow down or stop, because he was had that much dedication to fulfilling the wishes of his deceased mother, and getting her into her final resting place. “I can last it...We’ll lose time stopping” (207). Even when he was obviously in excruciating pain, he still just wanted to power through. This could either be pure allegiance to his mother, or it could be a clear indication of possibly being the only one in his family who might have religious