Time is an incorporated factor of life that weighs and measures our minutes, our hours,

our days, our weeks, and our years. It is a given, a necessity, a finite

measure of infinity that we need to maintain the natural order of things;

Or do we? What would happen if too much or too little emphasis were to be

placed on the measurement of time as we know it? Would we as humans be able

to cope with the situation, to improvise, to innovate? Or would the world

simply stop spinning, held fast in a vacuum of our own invention? This is

the question William Faulkner explored in his 1929 novel titled "The Sound

In this novel, Faulkner emphasizes man's heavy dependence on the concept of

abstract time by using fragmented sections of the past to give voice to the

present. With this disorder in structure in the writing of "The Sound and

the Fury", Faulkner paints a picture of total chaos. Faulkner presents man's

standardized, ordered method of the measurement of time as an obstacle to

his future. The characters in "The Sound and the Fury" are obsessed with

past events, therefore their present was continuously threatened by "those

father and turns to alcohol. In transferring this blame, he convinces

family and the misfortune visited upon them by forces originating both

to be projected onto his children. The view that Mr. Compson holds of the

in his critique of "The Sound and the Fury", comments that Mr. Compson tells

doing time upon this earth, living an existence fated to have no meaning

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