The Sound and the Fury

The movie Mad Max: Fury Road was released in the year 2015. The director was George Miller, known for directing movies such as Happy Feet, Babe and all of the other Mad Max movies. Mad Max: Fury Road would best be characterized as an action film or sci-fi thriller because of its action scenes and post-apocalyptic theme. Mad Max: Fury Road is an important film because it has been nominated for and won many major awards, it shows a fight for feminism, and is a great example of merging computer…

suffer from a severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss, which is a hearing loss that is attributed to damage to the cochlea. The cochlea is the anatomical structure that stimulates the auditory nerve, thus allowing the individual to perceive sound. However, a cochlear implant is not a cure for a hearing loss. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human services approximately 2-3 children out of 1,000 are born with…

The main purpose of Jehlen’s article “Faulkner’s Fiction and Southern Society” is to discuss how Faulkner viewed the South and how it affected his writing, particularly in the stories set in Yoknapatawpha. It states that these stories are “tense with extreme, unresolvable contradictions,” and contends that these are “neither temperamental nor linguistic in origin but expressed [Faulkner’s] profoundly discordant view of Southern life.” It opens with a quote from Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust…

Australian director George Miller’s 2015 blockbuster, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, is an action filled, post-apocalyptic film. The Mad Max universe is a set in a stark, desert landscape filmed in Namibia, with an oil and water crisis, which forces humanity to revert back to a state of war and isolation. One of the main characters, Max is captured by the “war boys” who live in the Citadel run by tyrannical Immortan Joe, and eventually finds Furiosa and her rig. In the ‘Furiosa’ scene, he attempts to…

author who wrote numerous literature, which included material such as narratives, novels, essays, and poetry, are just a few of the ways he conveyed his opinions about the south. Faulkner wrote on southern literature, which two of his novels, The Sound and the Fury and Soldiers Pay, consist of the aftermath of War World 1, and the other dwells on the enslavement and the South’s massacre of the Civil War. Both novels have a unique way of conveying the annihilation and impairment that the south…

Madness is a severe mental illness that creates dangerous or foolish behavior. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe portrays madness in the exquisite way of symbolizing a guilty conscience with the sound of a dead man’s heart beat. The symbolism used in this story allows the reader to believe that the narrator is on the bridge of insanity. The reliability of the narrator is erratic and untrustworthy. “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture — a pale blue eye with a film over it.…

The picturesque landscape of the Old South has deeply engrained itself into the minds of many. Decades preceding the Civil War was a time of mansions, plantations and the idealistic Southern gentleman, his exquisite wife, their children and their slaves. Each plantation had a stoic white mansion with Roman pillars, surrounded by fields of cotton and tobacco filled with field hands harmonizing in song. The iconic image that the Old South lives by, the family enjoying church on Sunday mornings,…

After explains Dujardin's works he describes the stream of consciousness technique as a narrative method that authors aim to add colors in their fictional characters. In addition, he used the stream of consciousness in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury as an examples. He said the author uses this techniques to captures their fictional character's minds in order to provide exciting points of view in the stories. Lawrence Edward Bowling is a good source because his book was collected in…

Directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, How to Train Your Dragon (2010) tells the story of Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), a small Viking, who overcomes the prejudices against dragons he was raised with after he wounds a Night Fury. Hiccup initially seems dead set on killing his first dragon in order to garner the attention and love he wants from his friends and most importantly his village’s chief and father, Stoick (Gerard Butler.) However, upon wounding a dragon and being confronted with the…

burning strong and clear in the dark of night. Soldiers stumbled back in shock as he makes his entrance to the area, they had not anticipated such a quick approach. Rynault's fury fuels his strength as he swings his axe in each direction of an enemy effortlessly, ripping and shredding anything it connects with. His hunger and fury unsated, he releases a final roar as he spins furiously and catches the rest of the soldiers in his cyclone of steel as he leaps into the air. The monstrosity of…