Attempt a critical analysis of The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury is Faulkner’s fourth novel, first published by Cape & Smith, New York on October 7, 1929. It is widely appreciated as Faulkner’s best work of fiction. Treated from different points of view, the novel concentrates on the breakdown of the Compson family over a period of three decades, from around 1898 to 1928. Faulkner explained that he started it with the image of a young girl, Caddy Compson, climbing a tree in order to look through the parlour window at her dead grandmother laid out in the house.Caddy is the central character in the novel and her relationship with her three brothers—Quentin, Jason and Benjy Compson is the novel’s integrative theme. Faulkner tells the story from multiple points of view.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in a famous soliloquy, speaks of life as a“tale/ told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/signifying nothing.” The first chapter of Faulkner’s novel is literally a tale told by an idiot, Benjy Compson. The more Faulkner writes, “the more elastic the title became, until it covered the whole family.” In this chapter, the reader receives direct and immediate impressions of the world as expressed in an Interior Monologue of the longings and sensations of Benjy, the youngest son of Jason Compson Sr. and Caroline Compson. The novel opens on April 7, 1928, Benjy’s 33rd birthday. He and his 14-year-old black caretaker, Luster are standing by the fence that separates the yard from the golf course that had once been the Compsons’ pasture, where Benjy and his siblings spent much of their childhood. In 1909, the pasture had to be sold to supply the money for ________ ______ ________ __________ ______ _______ ________ _________.
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