The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner’s movie The Sound, including the Violence, is set in the United States. It uses a variety of storytelling techniques, including a stream of consciousness.
The Book, The Sound and the Fury Faulkner’s fourth novel, was published in 1929 and was not immediately popular. When Faulkner’s sixth novel, Sanctuary, was released in 1931, a sensationalist fiction that Faulkner later admitted he wrote primarily for money. The Sound and the Fury became financially successful as well, and Faulkner began to gain critical notice.
The book is set in the first third of the twentieth century in Jefferson, Mississippi. This Compson family, erstwhile Southern aristocracy, is at the core of the story. They are dealing with the collapse of their family and its reputation. The family falls into financial disaster, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson throughout the novel’s about 30 years, and many of them die tragically.
The novel is divided into four sections. The first is written in the voice and from the perspective of Benjamin “Benjy” Compson, an intellectually handicapped 33-year-old man who experienced events and subsequent thoughts and recollections on April 7, 1928.
On June 2, 1910, the second portion was about Benjy’s elder brother, Quentin Compson, and the circumstances leading up to Quentin’s suicide. This part is written in a stream-of-consciousness manner with several chronological jumps.
Faulkner speaks from the perspective of Jason, Quentin’s cynical younger brother, in the third part, which takes place a day before the first on April 6, 1928. Faulkner adds a third-person omniscient point of view in the fourth section, which takes place a day after the first on April 8, 1928. As Dilsey contemplates her relationship with Jason and “Miss” Quentin Compson, the penultimate portion focuses primarily on Dilsey, one of the Compsons’ black maids.
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