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A 5 page paper discussing Darl as a tragic hero in William Faulkner's novel.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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provide a critique of modern life both in the South and in those areas not exclusively related to Southern society. In providing such a critique, he provided his readers with
an examination of many dominant and recurrent themes of twentieth-century literature - the decline of moral values under the onslaught of a growing commercialism and industrialization, the ever growing incapacity
for establishing close human relationships, the encroachment of an impersonal world and its accompanying alienation, and the loss of sensitivity that people believed to be a necessary evil of modern
progress and Americas growth as a world power. In short, he used tragedy in his stories to reflect the tragedy he saw within our nation.
Someone once summarized all of human existence as a struggle or conflict between man and man, man and nature, and man and himself. Someone else was quick to
pounce upon this observation and to convert it to what he then referred to as the three major themes of literature: man against man, man against nature, and man against
himself. Faulkner, among many other writers, subscribed to this conclusion, and then proceeded to provide these basic themes with his own distinctive approach.
The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up in themselves that they
lose sight of each other and the importance being together as a family during a time of loss. Within this novel, Darl Bundren,
for all his oddities, is a tragic hero. Although he seems to be extremely unattached from, and unemotional about, those around him, he is the most unselfish of the lot.
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