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Absalom


            
             Many novels have been set out and read by American Literature classes all over.
             Each novel teaching a political importance or pertaining the importance about the novel .
             and its literary work. The novel Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner is set in the .
             post-Civil War time period, where slavery has been set and prejudice still prevails. .
             Absalom, Absalom! is considered the greatest work of America's greatest novelist, one of .
             that handful of American writers who challenged readers the most pleasurably and .
             provocatively. .
             Absalom, Absalom! Employs a multiple narrator technique, it uses the varying .
             voices and points of view of a number of characters to examine the life and character of .
             Thomas Sutpen, a tragic figure who tries and fails to build a family dynasty in .
             Yoknapatawpha County. The novel shuttles back and forth in time between past and .
             present. It opens in September, 1909, the present, with Quentin Compson talking to Rosa .
             Coldfield about Thomas Sutpen. The main story pieced together from the various .
             narratives is interesting. Thomas Sutpen, a poor farmer from West Virginia, comes to .
             Jefferson in 1833, buys a hundred square miles of land from the Indians with Spanish .
             gold, and builds a plantation, Sutpen's Hundred. Absalom, Absalom! is mainly .
             remembered for its experiments with language and form, its anguish over personal, .
             regional, national, and social fears. The action of the novel is seemingly always in .
             motion, moving forward and backward in time and constantly adding meanings. The .
             narrative structure throughout each chapter jumps back and forth between internal and .
             external, back and forth between different characters' thoughts. Faulkner's use of .
             narrative in Absalom, Absalom! may be controversial and mystifying, but it has .
             influenced cultures and movements. Absalom, Absalom! is said to contain the most.
             original use of narrative in American literature and no other author, trying to imitate .


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