Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1973

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Coyle, William

Abstract

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) have often been considered as related works. It is my contention that As I Lay Dying is indeed a direct outgrowth of the earlier book and that it restates certain themes and exhibits several of the same personality types. A basic theme of the two books is the antithetical opposition of passive and active elements. Lesser themes are the opposition of words and deeds and the closely related opposition of individual freedom and the inability to achieve that freedom. Faulkner illustrates these themes through his characters. Parallel characters in the two novels are Caroline Compson and Anse Bundren, Caddy Compson and Addie Bundren, Miss Quentin and Jewel, and Quentin and Darl. In his presentation of the tension operating between these antithetical elements, Faulkner does not necessarily provide a resolution of that tension, but leaves conclusions to the reader.

Extent

77 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13579

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