The Sound and the Fury

Benjy Compson is the narrator of the first part of the novel entitled “On April 7, 1928” this date represents Benjy's thirty-third birthday. Throughout this section reader discover Benjy’s world and his innermost thoughts from the morning until night. The section reports only one day. Because of Benjy’s limited cognitive skills which render him unable to distinguish time, readers are guided throughout his narrative by the change of his servants: each one represents a particular moment in his…

Agamemnon’s Argument My soldiers blame me for the plague that has fallen upon our army and is killing my people. Yes, despite the ransom, I refused to return Chryses’ daughter, but will my returning her soothe the fury of Apollo? I am sure that I am not the cause of this horror that has fallen upon the Achaeans. I am willing to give Chryses’ daughter back if it will lift this plague. However, I will not be the only one left without a prize. Achilles asks what prize he may give me to make up for…

Hien Tieu Dr. Liz Ann Baez Anguilar ENGL 1302.012 1st October 2015 Lyric Time Dickinson and the Limits of Genre Cameron, Sharon. “Lyric Time Dickinson and the limits of genre”, library of congress cataloging in publication data. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. 1979. (66) I should like to offer two conventional paraphrases of the poem, which I shall then suggest are inadequate. In the first, picked up by God, the speaker becomes His marksman: the mountains resound with…

It comes to no surprise that women are associated with predominantly negative connotations such as death in most older works of literature. In the novels The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the main women of each novel are placed at fault for the death of characters and the American Dreams. Using the Feminist and Marxist Theory to analyze the previously listed novel will show a common trope of ‘bad girls’…

“Out Out Brief candle!” Act V; v. life is brief and in that time a lot can happen, but it’s the significance of it that matters, or are you an “idiot telling a tale, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”? Macbeth isn’t sure just how he wasted all this time trying to be king, and in turn wasting his life because within a few moments he is going to die for sure (Mate). He would kill anyone to stay in power, like he did to Banquo…

(famousauthors.com) The second novel he wrote was Mosquitos in 1927 and the third was Sartoris. (Elements of Literature) He also wrote The Sound and the Fury in 1929 and it was about a downfall with the Compson family that…

Vengeful God In the book Genesis translated by Robert Atler, God created human beings, and they are, therefore, his children. However, God lacks patience, gets angry, and is vengeful with his children. When Eve eats the fruit, she was forbidden to eat; God told Eve he would make women have pain when bearing children and that men will rule over women . God tells Adam that the soil will be cursed and man will have to sweat to eat . God doesn’t teach the humans how to live because he wants them to…

Both the 2013 novel The Darwin Elevator written by Jason M. Hough and the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller, explore the challenges of post-apocalyptic futures. Hough and Miller focus on the ideas of war and survival. Hough challenges the reader to view the idea of war and survival through the use of literary techniques. Miller conversely uses film techniques to display this same idea of war and survival however in a distinctly different environment. Hough and Miller both…

relationship. Apollo tells Orestes “ I will not forsake you, I will protect you until the end, I will stand by your side even when I am far, far away” (The Furies 120, 64-65). He establishes a close bond with Orestes and vows to protect him. He withholds his claim and gets Athena on the same side as Orestes saving him from the trial and wrath of the Furies. The relationship between the two gods and Orestes includes close and direct communication just like with the gods in the Iliad and Genesis,…

Dewey Dell is “squatting” as her “wet dress shapes for the dead eyes of three blind men those mammalian ludicrosities which are the horizons and the valleys of the earth” (Faulkner). Here, Dewey Dell is dehumanized and fit into the animal motif. Her purpose is not to appear beautiful or attractive, rather as a woman who is meant to bear children. When Darl is observing these things, he does so through a cynical lens, because he knows of Dewey Dell’s illegitimate pregnancy with the farm hand. It…