Sound And The Fury

Faulkner uses an array of style techniques in his novels. The most apparent styles he uses in The Sound and the Fury are: the uses of language, narration, and the unique design of the novel.

"Faulkner's style is a significant factor that is masterfully controlled"(Hoffman 142). Faulkner's style is exactly that. With his repetition of certain key words and nice precision in diction, as seen in its direct imagery, it is amazing all of the ways Faulkner uses language in his writing. Another one of Hoffman's critiques is as follows, "Faulkner is most individual is his persistent lyrical embroidery and coloring of narrative theme"(144-5).

As seen in the Quentin section of The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner uses many interior monologues throughout the novel. This shows his wonderful use of narration in his works. Another way Faulkner struts his talent is by creating a stream of consciousness that sketches a plot, where in lucid sections that follow gradually come out clean and precise. Also an interesting part of the novel is that the narrators do not touch on too many of the same ideas, but the selections of events seems determined essentially by their interests and obsessions. A great statement by critic Dowling on Faulkner's narration is that Benjy's section allowed Faulkner freedom to write "composition by analogy" so as to have a stream of consciousness and associations.(page 42-3) Critic Putzel also had critiques upon the narration of The Sound and the Fury such as, "Quentin's section is narrated through the sub-verbal or verbally chaotic associations of a young man in a frenzy to kill himself"(149). or "The narrator of the fourth section of the novel is fully aware and knows of the community of readers and listeners, and is an outsider"(152).

The design of this novel is built around complex space and time structures. Another good literary critique from Putzel

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