Citations

Works Cited

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Random House, 1956. Print.

The Sound and the Fury: Character List. Sparknotes. Web. .

"William Faulkner." Wikipedia. Web. .

Historical/Societal Aspects

Sound and the Fury: Historical & Societal Aspects

There are two main aspects to The Sound and the Fury that are both historical and societal. First, the novel took place in Jefferson, Mississippi where southern values were strongly emphasized and where plantation owners were in control. Most of them abused the power they had. Secondly, the memories of the characters took place in the early 1900s, and the present dates of each narration take place on the 6^th, 7th and 8^th of April 1928, and the 2^nd of June 1910. All these dates were after the civil war and reconstruction, a time when powerful, wealthy, aristocratic families like the Compsons started to lose influence as the north gained the power and prestige once held by the south. Faulkner was making a statement about how southern life and values would never be recovered after their loss in the civil war and the subsequent reconstruction.

Multimedia

Macbeth Soliloquy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAi4qzNHtwY

William Faulkner's Writing Style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvWMFH7cvoY

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young- Southern Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB_qmRjetdE

Grammatical Concept

Parallelism: Parallelism is the balance and agreement of two or more words, phrases or clauses. Before this year, I used paralellism in my writing, but not in a consistent manner. This was because I didn't know parallelism was an actual rule, I thought it just "was". I never contemplated how I should list a series of events, I just did it. Now that I have learned the technicalities of parallelism through this class and a SAT class I attended, I learned it by completing countless SAT practice tests, with some obvious parallelism errors that my grammatical ear found, as well as some that took some deeper thinking about the concept of parallelism itself.

Examples:

"As I descended the light dwindled slowly, yet at the same time without altering ots quality, as if I and not light were changeing. decreasing..."(131).

"...Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil"(206).

Vocabulary

livery stable: a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.

defunctive: of or pertaining to the dead; funereal.

mote: a small particle or speck, esp. of dust.

wench: a country lass or working girl; prostitute

wisteria: any climbing shrub belonging to the genus Wisteria, of the legume family, having showy, pendent clusters of blue-violet, white, purple, or rose flowers

lattice: a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips.

bootblack: a person who shines shoes and boots for a living.

dropsy: an infectious disease of fishes, characterized by a swollen, spongelike body and protruding scales, caused by a variety of the bacterium

daguerreotype: An obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.

desiccate: to dry thoroughly; dry up.