Monday, April 3, 2017
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury was hands down the most complicated book I have ever read. Faulkner starts off the book with two chapters, chock full of information, trapped in the troubled consciousness of Quentin as well as Benjy's lack of consciousness. All this information is brought together when Dilsey and Jason narrate. However, despite Jason's ability to think on a normal level, when compared to Dilsey, the truth is diluted with rage against the world. For the first time in the whole story, we get a narrator who can provide clear, unaltered truths about the Compsons. This search for truth, or in other words, the search to find out who the Composons are and where they are going becomes a primary motif in the book, as the first three narrators fail to do this on their own. Dilsey's chapter is essential to the book, as it ties the story together with the constant that was never present.
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I think Benjy is the provider of truth in the book. Even the ending is seen though Benjy. and though he does lack conscious it is this that gives the ability to provide and unabridged narrative of the Compsons. Quentin over thinking and troubled conscious twist their relationships. Jason dilutes and rationalizes his actions so that is is impossible for him to provide an unbiased story. It is because Benjys simplicity that Faulkner chose his chapter to be the basis of the entire book.
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