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In nine pages this paper analyzes how the author symbolically represents the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the novel and the importance of this religious symbolism to the story of the dysfunctional Compson family and the decline of the Southern aristocracy. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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File: TG15_TGwffury.rtf
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complex works were heavily laden with symbolism and psychological overtones that lent themselves particularly well to literary analysis. Faulkner frequently featured the fictional Compson family of Jefferson, Mississippi.
Their descendants were statesmen and decorated Civil War generals. But that was another time, and in many ways another place. The plantation era died at Appomattox, but many
once-illustrious families like the Compsons continued to mourn its passing. Thus began the slow death of the family much like the slow-motion collapse of Southern society and the old
world traditions that defined it. In the 1928 novel The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner follows in T.S. Eliots modernist footsteps and creates a novel "myth" in which
this dysfunctional family become the caretakers of "Christian modernism," which by now have become a veritable "wasteland" (Sundquist 128). Instead of seeking spiritual solace in religion, the Compsons focus
on their physical bodies, either numbing themselves in alcohol, indulging in indiscriminate sexuality, or martyring themselves in life and in death. Faulkner takes great pains to structure the novel to
symbolize "the death and resurrection of Christ" (Sundquist 128). Its four sections feature narratives from three members of the Compson family and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey
Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual events are oftentimes subjectively embellished upon to suit the narrators purposes (Castille 423). There is
a consistent message that the Civil War purged "the Souths aristocratic values and system of slavery," but its demise was slow and exceedingly painful like the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
(Medoro 91). The older Compson generation wants to "return to... the promised land," which for them meant the society of master and slave while the younger Compsons and eventually
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