There is only one thing that stays with you throughout your entire life, your name. Names are a part of every society and culture, it helps define who a person is. Names identify where someone is from and the cultural aspects of that specific person. They are the first way of identifying someone and classifying who they are. Throughout The Sound and the Fury, Faulkners varied use of character's names helps the reader further understand and know the characters and plot line.
Names are the biggest symbol of who someone is. They play a major role on a persons personality, it affects a person's self- concept. Self concept is used to describe how someone thinks about, evaluated or perceives themselves. Self concept is affected by a name because …show more content…
Throughout the book, there were many instances that seemed like Caddy and Quentin, her brother, had committed incest. Quentin even tries explains to his father about what he did. He never actually had a sexual relationship with caddy. But he felt responsible for what her and Dalton Ames did. He was very upset about that event and did the only thing he thought was right, to kill himself. At one point in the book, they were trying to kill each other because neither felt the need to live anymore. They both knew they had made a major mistake and they wanted to get away from it. Miss Quentin was named after her uncle who committed suicide just before Miss. Quentin was …show more content…
She called him Benoni, meaning “ son of my sorrow.” Jacob changed it to Benjamin, meaning “ son of the right hand” ( Gen 35:18). He had eleven older brothers…In both the Compsons and the Old Testament Family of Benjamin, Both Benjamin’s were the youngest child of the family. They both were treated differently from their other siblings. In the Bible, Benjamin was taken to Egypt for grain by his brothers, and in the case of the Compson family, Benjy’s pasture was sold to pay for Quentin to attend Harvard. Originally, his name was Maury, named after his uncle, but when they found out he had a disability they changed it to Benjamin out of respect to Uncle Maury. “Your name is Benjy, Caddy said. Do you hear. Benjy. Benjy. Dont tell him that, Mother said.” ( Faulkner 61) Mother was not very accepting of calling her son Benjy. She insisted on calling him Benjamin. “ “Candace.” Mother said. “I told you not to call him that. It was bad enough when your father insisted on calling you by that silly nickname, and I will not have him called by one. Nicknames are vugular. Only common people use the.” Caddy encouraged the name change, she was very supportive of him and : His name’s Benjy now, Caddy said.” ( Faulkner 58) “My name been Dilsey since fore I could remember and it be Dilsey when they’s long forgot me” ( Faulkner 58). Dilsey is a stubborn, old fashioned African American woman, she does not see a
Names are the biggest symbol of who someone is. They play a major role on a persons personality, it affects a person's self- concept. Self concept is used to describe how someone thinks about, evaluated or perceives themselves. Self concept is affected by a name because …show more content…
Throughout the book, there were many instances that seemed like Caddy and Quentin, her brother, had committed incest. Quentin even tries explains to his father about what he did. He never actually had a sexual relationship with caddy. But he felt responsible for what her and Dalton Ames did. He was very upset about that event and did the only thing he thought was right, to kill himself. At one point in the book, they were trying to kill each other because neither felt the need to live anymore. They both knew they had made a major mistake and they wanted to get away from it. Miss Quentin was named after her uncle who committed suicide just before Miss. Quentin was …show more content…
She called him Benoni, meaning “ son of my sorrow.” Jacob changed it to Benjamin, meaning “ son of the right hand” ( Gen 35:18). He had eleven older brothers…In both the Compsons and the Old Testament Family of Benjamin, Both Benjamin’s were the youngest child of the family. They both were treated differently from their other siblings. In the Bible, Benjamin was taken to Egypt for grain by his brothers, and in the case of the Compson family, Benjy’s pasture was sold to pay for Quentin to attend Harvard. Originally, his name was Maury, named after his uncle, but when they found out he had a disability they changed it to Benjamin out of respect to Uncle Maury. “Your name is Benjy, Caddy said. Do you hear. Benjy. Benjy. Dont tell him that, Mother said.” ( Faulkner 61) Mother was not very accepting of calling her son Benjy. She insisted on calling him Benjamin. “ “Candace.” Mother said. “I told you not to call him that. It was bad enough when your father insisted on calling you by that silly nickname, and I will not have him called by one. Nicknames are vugular. Only common people use the.” Caddy encouraged the name change, she was very supportive of him and : His name’s Benjy now, Caddy said.” ( Faulkner 58) “My name been Dilsey since fore I could remember and it be Dilsey when they’s long forgot me” ( Faulkner 58). Dilsey is a stubborn, old fashioned African American woman, she does not see a