The Sound And The Fury喧哗与骚动英文ppt.ppt

The Sound And The Fury 喧哗与骚动 William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897–1962), also known as Will Faulkner, was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. Faulkner is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life As I Lay Dying 我弥留之际 Light in August 八月之光 Absalom, Absalom! Title 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! Lifes 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. act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Style and Structure The four parts of the novel relate many of the same episodes, each from a different point of view and therefore with emphasis on different themes and events. This structure makes any true synopsis of the novel difficult, especially since the narrators are all unreliable in their own way, making their accounts not necessarily trustworthy at all times. Also in this novel, Faulkner uses italics to indicate points in each section where the narrative is moving into a significant moment in the past. The use of these italics can be confusing, however, as time shifts are not always marked by the use of italics, and periods of different time in each section do not necessarily stay in italics for the duration of the flashback. Thus, these time shifts can often be jarring and confusing, and require particularly close reading. Structure My comments on the structure Mr. Faulkner’s method in this book is successful. He begins by giving a general and confuse