Faulkner pictures
Whether men and women are men or women has been an enduring topic since ancient times. However, in Faulkner's works, the early stage generally reflects Faulkner's tendency to hate women. For example, in Faulkner's classic The Sound and the Fury, the female characters are mainly ruthless mothers and decadent daughters, and show that men completely deprive women of their discourse rights. However, in the last part of this book, the author turns to a new page and summarizes the female problems in the previous chapter of this book. In this respect, Faulkner shows his deep sympathy for women and hopes that women's status can reach the same equality as men.
In fact, in a patriarchal society, even if women have intelligent minds and even higher abilities than men, they are not recognized or even spurned. This is the case with Rosa in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom. Her psychology is distorted, and her birth is unfortunate. She lost her maternal love since she was a child, but at the same time, she did not get much fatherly love. No one cares about her yearning for the future, but she has a strong feminist consciousness. She has a smart mind and a restless mind, which is the greatest luck in her misfortune. At least in Faulkner's works, these women who are oppressed by male power are not numb, and the most important thing is their restless souls. Faulkner's feminism is unusual, intelligent and struggling. Born in a patriarchal society, these qualities are even more important!
What are the characteristics of William Faulkner's works?
As a representative of the stream of consciousness, William Faulkner's works are worth reading and rereading. The reason why he won the Nobel Prize in Literature is that he has made great contributions to contemporary American novels. Later writers and readers have also studied the characteristics of his works. What are the characteristics of William Faulkner's works?
The Sound and the Fury cover picture
Faulkner has to mention the stream of consciousness in his writing skills. In this respect, he can be described as a pioneer. At first glance, his works seem to be continuous, breaking the traditional regular short sentences. The sentence pattern is always long and complex and worthy of scrutiny. Secondly, another distinctive feature of Faulkner, multi-angle creation, is that he is good at dividing multiple roles in a novel, telling the same thing from multiple angles and perspectives, and combining it with stream of consciousness is more profound and intriguing. In writing techniques, Faulkner also disdains to follow the time of clocks, such as Benji in The Sound and the Fury. Because he is an idiot, his thoughts can never be normal, which just gives Faulkner a willful opportunity to use idiotic thinking in many ways and describe a thing in a chaotic way.
In terms of language style, Faulkner is not as easy to understand as the language written by magic writers. Most of Faulkner's works are obscure and difficult to read, which even makes the author lose the direction of language reading. Because it is too cumbersome, some people have criticized Faulkner's long sentences piled up with abstract words. But to say the least, this is Faulkner's style! William Faulkner is also good at using obscure symbolism. His works are foreshadowed in many places, and readers will feel suddenly enlightened when they read them later. William Faulkner is a great writer, which is not only because the characteristics of William Faulkner's works are amazing, but also because of the rich philosophy contained in his works.
what are Faulkner's works?
Faulkner left many works in his life, including about 2 novels and more than 1 short articles. Most of Faulkner's works are centered around the author's living environment, and many celebrity stories are interspersed among them.
The Sound and the Fury cover
At about the age of 28, Faulkner's first novel was published, and perhaps Faulkner's most famous and classic work is The Sound and the Fury. This novel introduces in detail the process of the old landlord's family's prosperity and decline from the very beginning, and describes the story that happened to the old landlord's daughter from all angles and develops on this basis. His wife complains, her daughter resists the traditional dogma of restraining women, her eldest son is stupid, her second son is selfish, and her third son is indecisive. The whole work does not reflect the care and warmth of any family, and even after her daughter's accident, her wife is not comforted. The overall tone of this novel is low, which not only describes the value orientation of southern families at that time, but also describes the value orientation of capitalism at that time to some extent.
When Faulkner was 44 years old, he published the famous short story Bear, which had a profound and meaningful influence in American literary circles. Later, it was also called a key to interpret all Faulkner's novels and even the southern American literature at that time. Similar to the writing technique of The Sound and the Fury is Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner tells the history of a family from the perspective of three people, and all three narrators only provide some small fragments and piece them together to become a complete story. Another short story, Sunset, is exposed to readers from the perspective of nine-year-old and five-year-old children, which is also very similar to the story in The Sound and the Fury from the perspective of idiots.