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A 9 page research paper that discusses the "monstrous" in William Faulkner's novel The Hamlet. The writer argues that the character of Flem Snopes is a social "monster" who manipulates and preys on others via business practices. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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category of Southern Gothic interchangeably with such as descriptive adjectives as "grotesque," or as one Time Magazine reviewer put it, Southern tales of "the demented, the deformed (and) the queer"
(Donaldson 567). Carson McCullers, in a 1941 essay, remarked that Southern writers tend to present a "bold and outwardly callous juxtaposition of the tragic with the humorous, the immense with
the sacred...the whole soul of man with a materialistic detail" (Donaldson 567). As this suggests, social monsters, whatever is grotesque and slightly demented in human behavior has frequently been
the focus of Southern literature and this characteristic if quite evident in William Faulkners The Hamlet. As Doris Betts points out, Faulkner is superb at capturing what was decadent
and evil in everyday Southern culture during the first half of the twentieth century (5). As a southern Faulkner was adept at observing the social patterns that he saw has
typifying the patterns of interaction and power. His keen eye for observation is demonstrated in his work. The Hamlet is part of Faulkners "Snopes" trilogy, the saga of a
tenacious Southern family that rises from obscurity to prominence, largely due to a studied disregard for the rights of others. Like a great deal of Faulkners fiction, the setting for
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of slavery, but it is also a locale that is
"paralyzed by obsession, violence, revenge and defeat" (Stewart 31). The principal "monster" of The Hamlet is Flem Snopes. His rise to power and status demonstrates how social mobility, triggered
by acquired wealth, can be a destructive force, as this process destroys any vestiges of personal integrity that Flem may have possessed at one time (Skinfill 151). He garners
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