The Sound and the Fury

Nonfiction Book Discussion Panels Golden Quotes: Beginning: “You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite lies, a deeply frustrated man striving to project his individuality against a backdrop of rigid conformity”(Capote 41). This quote portrays Smiths internal conflict with not being able to prosper in this world. Smith is depicted as a man with extreme passion and finds himself and his creativity restricted by the boundaries the people around him have…

The play’s entire script is written in dialogue, and the author writes, “BILL: Great place for reading. BETTY: Yes, I like it. BILL: What's the book? BETTY: The Sound and the Fury. BILL: Oh. Hemingway. (Bell.) ” (Ives) The conversation is ended with the bell because Bill told Betty that the author of the book she was reading was Hemingway, but is written by Faulkner. Every time one or the other says something that is…

Happy Gilmore stands out as one of Sandler’s best works. “The movie pokes fun at the rather “stiff” golf world and spices it up with a character that makes Mike Tyson look like a level headed individual. Anyone and anything sets Sandler into crippling fury.” (Common Sense Media). The movie had a 12 million dollar budget but still came away with 41.2 million in the box office. “The Wedding Singer is the most original comedy, but it’s cute, and Robbie situation could inspire the start of a…

deflect the path of fate and the tragedy that is to come. Macbeth’s famous lines are so in tune with Creon’s emotional state at the end that his actions and his very life after he has lost everything may seem like, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ( Shakespeare 5.5.18–27). Macbeth’s uttering of this line comes to symbolize just how justified both heroes believed they were in the beginning, but, as the end neared they came to realize that all they did was…

Macbeth by William Shakespeare is credited to be one of the greatest plays ever written. The play deserves such high praise because of its near perfect fit to the standards of Shakespearian tragedy. The play exhibits multiple characters of a tragedy, however the most obvious, and arguably most significant include the use of a tragic hero, hamartia, and catharsis. Undoubtedly, the most vital part of a Shakespearean tragedy is that the play contains a tragic hero. Previously, in Aristotelian…

It isn’t long before this disconnect aggravates itself, quickly spiralling into the uncapped psychosis commonly attributed to Hamlet in the latter part of the production. The catalyst? As The Mousetrap continues along its course, King Claudius stands before the crowd and takes his leave of the scene, retreating to places unknown. Hamlet, seeing this singularly ambiguous action as proof positive of his uncle’s guilt, allows an unconfirmed suspicion to congeal as fact in his delusion-wracked…

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (V. v. 29-31). In short, possessing ambition negatively changes a person as evidenced from Macbeth’s experiences. While most of the play suggests that possessing ambition is a negative trait, there are other instances where…

In his classic novel The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner artfully depicts the tragic downfall of the Compsons, a once elite, aristocratic, white Southern family. Seeking to unveil the tumultuous emotions and thoughts within his characters’ minds, Faulkner narrates his story from the perspective of the three Compson brothers (Benjy, Quentin, and Jason), along with a final section using a third-person point of view. With this structure, Faulkner explains the boys’ utter obsession with their…

From birth I was neglected, an ignominy to my own family. Royal blood could only be passed by a male child; no one wanted the pretty little girl with beautiful blonde hair. For this reason, I was deemed worthless, but then Sorceress found me and took me in. Locked away in the highest tower, she showed me the warmth in a mother’s touch. It is here that my story begins. Each day, after tending the garden, Sorceress would call up to me. “Repunzel, Repunzel, let down your hair!” From my secluded…

with the listener of having lost someone he had cared about, a close friend. Phillip shares about a friend that has surrendered to a coma. The tonic from the very first note is the guitar player, Dimebag Darrell using a harmonizing effect to make it sound as two or more guitars are being played at once with a slight change in pitch, but still in tune. This could also be understood as…