Thursday, September 19, 2019
Shakespeare in the Sound and the Fury Essay -- Sound and the Fury Essa
Shakespeare in the Sound and the Fury  The "Tomorrow" soliloquy in Act V, scene v of the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth provides central theme and imagery for The Sound and the Fury. Faulkner may or may not agree with this bleak, nihilistic characterization of life, but he does examine the characterization extensively.             Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow            Creeps in this petty pace from day to day            To the last syllable of recorded time;            And all our yesterdays have lighted fools            The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!            Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,            That struts and frets his hour upon the stage            And then is heard no more. It is a tale            Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,            Signifying nothing (Shakespeare 177-8).            The passage suggests man is mortal while time is immortal. Time maintains its pace independently of man's actions; it creeps through man-made institutions eventually leading to man's death. However, time maintains indifference towards man. Life spans are infinitesimal in comparison to the smallest division of time. In reality, the significance man ascribes to human existence is false: life has no significance. Life is merely a brief episode of strutting and fretting, "full of sound and fury, . . . signifying nothing."  Every section of the Sound and the Fury relates to Macbeth's speech. Each narrator presents life as "full of sound and fury," represented in futile actions and dialogue. Benjy, Quentin, Jason, and Dilsey all emit constant wor... ... Faulkner's views on life, a supposed contrast to Macbeth's. After hundreds of pages of examining Shakespeare's passage, Faulkner concludes his work with an uplifting transcendence of nihilism. Faulkner leaves the reader with hope, the signification of meaning yet to come.  Works Cited  Commentary. The Sound and the Fury. Olemiss Resources               http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/n-sf.html  Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.  Harold, Brent. "The Volume and Limitations of Faulkner's Fictional Method." Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 11, 1975.  Irwin, John T. "A Speculative Reading of Faulkner" Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 14, 1975.  Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York: Washington Square Press, 1992. Â
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