William Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy
The mere name Faulkner often strikes fear into the hearts of readers of American literature. His constant variation in his prose style and sentences has baffled minds for nearly eight decades. Long sentences, which sometimes run for pages without punctuation of any sort, are his trademarks; he tried to express each idea to the fullest in his sentences. Oftentimes, the sheer difficulty encountered when reading his literature has turned many a reader away. Somehow, despite this, William Faulkner has been recognized as one of the greatest American writers of the Twentieth Century. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of his novels, A Fable (1924), and The Reivers (1962), and he also received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. So why is his writing considered to be so good if so many people can't stand to read it? The answer lies in the thought behind and the background of his literature. Faulkner's writing strikes a chord in readers because of his attention to detail; his novels are not merely stories, but instead they are volumes of art.
Faulkner's deeply thought-out and well-described setting and characters allow readers to escape into the world of the Snopes family. Faulkner incorporated much of himself and even more of his surroundings into his novels. His home, Lafayette County, Mississippi, was the basis for his "fictional" setting of Yoknapatawpha County - the setting of the Snopes trilogy and several other novels.
Frenchman's Bend was the setting of much of The Hamlet. Lying along a bend in the river where an apparently successful plantation had once been, Frenchman's Bend became a small town in the post civil-war era. Faulkner's description of the area immediately ...
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...bursting point, embodies his goal to capture all aspects of experience, not to let anything escape." Faulkner certainly reached his goal; no other author has expressed his ideas more thoroughly than William Faulkner. Every sentence is a complete thought that carries the reader on an intellectual journey because the sentences take you through Faulkner's own mind - an achievement unequaled in literature.
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Faulkner, William. The Hamlet. New York: Random House, 1956.
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Porter, Carolyn. "William Faulkner: Innocence Historicized." Seeing and Being: The Plight of the Participant Observer in Emerson, James, Adams, and Faulkner. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. Cited as rpt. in Bloom.
I believe that the authors of these texts are putting forward the message that true power is something that is innate in people, not something that can be achieved in the ways that the General, and Lucas Carle did. Where the power lies in a certain situation is not always where it first seems most obvious.
Faulkner portrays the townspeople and Emily in the southern town of Jefferson during the late 1800's to early 1900's. The town is more than just the setting in the story; it takes on its own characterization alongside Emily the main character. It is the main reasoning behind Emily's attitude and actions. It gives the reader an easier understanding into why Emily makes the decisions she does as the story unwinds.
I will argue that the revised notion of power as a positive influence that is produced in communicative space, runs c...
Any one who’s ever visited the south has a true appreciation for the writings of William Faulkner. Everything ever written by William Faulkner has a trace of the South that can be felt by just reading his words. Growing up in Mississippi, Faulkner was exposed to the Deep South and everything it had to offer, both good and bad. Through his writings, William tackles some of the most difficult issues of his time period and sheds light to the every day issues going on in the South. William Faulkner set the precedent for future generations, and he will arguably never be contested in his southern style. Without William Faulkner, American literature would be blind to the truth of the South and all its glory.
In conclusion, the concept of power is something that has been around for as long as there have been people. And it will continue to be a part of society for as long as people
In many of Faulkner’s stories, he tells about an imaginary county in Mississippi named Yoknapatawpha. He uses this county as the setting for his story “Barn Burning” and it is also thought that the town of Jefferson from “A Rose for Emily” is located in Yoknapatawpha County. The story of a boy’s struggle between being loyal to his family or to his community makes “Barn Burning” exciting and dramatic, but a sense of awkwardness and unpleasantness arrives from the story of how the fictional town of Jefferson discovers that its long time resident, Emily Grierson, has been sleeping with the corpse of her long-dead friend with whom she has had a relationship with.
Kinney, Jean; Leaton, Gwen. Loosening The Grip. Mosby-Year Book, Inc., St. Louis, 1995. (Page 268).
By reading closely and paying attention to details, I was able to get so much more out of this story than I did from the first reading. In short, this assignment has greatly deepened my understanding and appreciation of the more complex and subtle techniques Faulkner used to communicated his ideas in the story.
Overall, Faulkner masterfully blends several elements of literature with his own personal flair, producing a novel simmering with the life and story of the characters. His round-about narration technique, paired with his stream of consciousness writing, produce a twisted, difficult plot line, complete with complex and eccentric characters, all within the bounds of a single novel.
On September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, a son was born to Murry Cuthbert and Maud Butler Faulkner. This baby, born into a proud, genteel Southern family, would become a mischievous boy, an indifferent student, and drop out of school; yet “his mother’s faith in him was absolutely unshakable. When so many others easily and confidently pronounced her son a failure, she insisted that he was a genius and that the world would come to recognize that fact” (Zane). And she was right. Her son would become one of the most exalted American writers of the 20th century, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature and two Pulitzers during his lifetime. Her son was William Faulkner.
"William Faulkner (1897-1962)." Short Story Criticism. Ed. Jelena Krstovic. Vol. 97. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007. 1-3. Literature Criticism Online. Gale. Hempfield High School. 31 March 2010.
The person could tell them yes now, because the person knows that William Faulkner was a well-known poet and novelist. His troubled, yet talented background, time during Great Depression, and poetry and novels shaped him as a writer, making him a memorable writer.
Power is the ability to control or influence others, especially socially or politically. We often hear of the horror stories, in which corrupt dictators with too much power kill innocent citizens, eliminate all competition, and hurt others for personal gain. Power itself is not necessarily the bad thing here; it comes as an instinctive need to humans, rooted in the primal purpose of survival (Anchor text). The abuse of power leads to corruption. Power is an unstable force that can have positive or negative outcomes, depending on why it was sought and the attitude of those on the receiving end of the control.
power, in a struggle between man and beast. This purpose of this paper is not