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Faulkner's Writing Style
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Faulkner's Style Analysis
- Narrates half of monologues because intelligent and is very descriptive
- Did not feel emotions in contrast to ever - angry Jewel who held on to his sanity
- monologues become strange near end, especially when he talks in 3rd person p253
- Darl steadily descends into madness p80
- Darl is characterized by his own narrations, only twice by actions in contrast to Jewel
Darl
Vardaman
- Much of his monologue is emotions
- Not old enough to express complex thoughts
- p101 child sibling attachment
- p150 child overwhelmed
Anse
Character Literary diversity
- Characters are expressed in different literary styles
- Makes monologues diverse and unique in perspective
- Reveals how character's minds work
- Anse's intelligence is made clear through countenance and body posture
- bottom p.76
- bottom p.77
- Last page
- Use of high to low lvl/animalistic adjectives
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Faulkner In Action
More Faulkner Style
p.80 Darl's early signs of madness
Paragraph is placed there not for you to comprehend
Placed for insight into Darl's confused mind and trauma is evident when he suddenly adds Addie's death into past/future/present and sleep
- Demonstrate difference between storytelling & 1st person impressions (volunteer)
- The multiple perspective effect
Falkner vs fictional cont.
- n - Either teach a lesson or tell a story
- f - Gives in depth concept to ponder over
- n - watch characters or hear thoughts
- f - transmits full experiences of characters who have issues
- f - Leaves an impression of what occurs
Faulkner Style vs fiction novel
- Focus is different, novels focus on protagonist goals, Faulkner focus on portrayal of event
- n - happiness , humor, locked perspective, glorious heros
- f - multi-view, grim humor, struggles, no censor or ideal
Faulkner's Beliefs
- No longer problems of the spirit - 1969
- Physical fear
- Problems of the heart
- "courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice "
- Writer is pillar of man's legacy and future
Basics about Faulkner
- WW1
- High school dropout
- Estelle Oldham
- Alcoholic
- Debt
- Infidelity
- Poetry
- Real novels
- American South
- New literary techniques
Citations
29 June 2012. Web. 02 Jan. 2013.
"How to Read Faulkner"Oprah.com, Web. 2013,2/24/2014
"A Discourse Analysis of Darl's Descent into Madness in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying",missouri state university ,2/12/2014. Web. 2/24/2014
"William Faulkner's writing Style", CliffNotes, 2013, 2/24/2014. Web
"William Faulkner: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech", fremdamericanstudies, 2013,2/24/2014,Web