In "The Sound and The Fury", anxieties over newly emerging race relations are displaced onto sexuality and a preoccupation with sexual and familial purity. Discuss. The Sound and the Fury is a brilliantly crafted modernistic masterpiece written by William Faulkner in the 1930's. It cleverly tells the story of the Compson family from Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1900's. The novel is divided into four sections and collectively narrated in each section by different characters in the novel. The Compson family throughout the novel ... of race, gender or social standing, is Dilseys" final hope...

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... because of his private nature. Harry begins to show that something is wrong by either being disrespectful to his father or by showing his depression on the subject of the war and the draft. " Sometimes I lean over and touch the war with the flat of my hand. I wait for my hand to die."(p. 506). Leo feels obligated to question his son in order to find out what ... decides to "act strange or odd" (p. 67: 190). Hamlet's decision to act "mad" drives him into insanity. The ignorance of Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, to invade on her son's privacy, led to this insane explosion of fury among friend...

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• Grade Level: High School