Art and Asthetic

1. ART AND
AESTHETIC
THE SOUND AND THE FURY

2. PARTICIPANTS
• IRAM
• ADEEBA
• ALIA
• NOOR

3. WILLIAM CUTHBERT
FAULKNER
• An American writer ,a nobel prize laureate
• The nobel prize in literature 1949 awarded to him for his powerful
and artistically unique contribution to the modern american novel
• Best known for his experiments with the stream of conscious
narrative style.
• The sound and the fury heavily and exclusively utilize the stream of
conscious narrative techniques.
• Applied through both first and third person narrative points of view
• Most of his novels are combination between naturalistic prose and
stream of conscious.

4. The sound and the fury
• a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury /signifying nothing
• Faulkner’s fourth novel
• Story of compson family,the loss of their once –respected position in
southern society.
• Genre :southern Gothic ,Modern Literature
• A glimpse of south perceived by faulkner and to be imagined by the
readers.

5. NARRATIVE TECHNIQUESAPPLIED BY WILLIAM
FAULKNER
• STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• DIRECT MONOLOGUE
• FIRST PERSON NARRATIVE MODE
• OMNISCIENT POINT OF VIEW
• MULTIPLICITY OF NARRATIVE VOICE
• SYMBOLISM
• VIEW POINT
• ALLEGORY

6. NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES
• FLASHBACK
• UNRELIABLE NARRATION
• FORESHADOWING
• TEMPORAL REPETION
• DISOREDERD TIME
• SEQUENCES
• COUNTER POINT OR JUXTAPOSITION
• ELABORATE SPECULATION

7. Stream of consciousness
• William james
• Continuous flow of thoughts
• Highest point of development
• How he makes his stream of consciousness more
innovative?....he does so…
• Complex page like long sentences…judged
time…spliced narrative ….experimented with multiple
narratives….and interrupted simple stories with
rambling….stream of consciousness soliloques
• The sound and the fury ,,,,,stream of consciousness is
applied through a series of thoughts ,images ,emotions
and memories in spontaneous and illogical order,,

8. Direct interior monologue
• In literary criticism , a narrative mode ,,seeks to portray
an individual ‘s point of view by giving the written
equivalent of the character’s thought process
• In loose interior monologue
• Connection to his actions
• Inner desires motivations
• First person narrators perspective
• Incomplete thoughts completed by the audience
• Multiple narrator’s feelings
• Three of the four sections of the sound and the fury use
interior monologue

9. First person narrative
• Expressed through the central character
• Third person voice in the first person narrative
• Story is told from the main characters point of view
• Narrator is also a character
• First person allows the audience to see the main
character’s thinking.(teller character narration)
• Opening monologue gives the impression ;idiot ‘s
unconscious mind is somehow responsible for the
narration
• First 3 sections ; in first person narration in different
perseptives
• “I wasn ‘t crying, but I couldn’t stop. I wasn ‘t crying ,
but the ground wasn ‘t still an then I was crying”

10. Omniscient point of view
• Third person omniscient ; narrative mode,,, both reader
and writer observe through senses and thoughts
• Last section narrated by Faulkner through Dilsey ,the
maid of compson family,,,point of view of strory teller.
• Plays no part,,yet knows all facts ,incident including
characters thoughts…….

11. MULTIPLICITY OF NARRATORS
• INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES; Introduction of “multiple
narrators” employed by faulkner.
• Use of multiple narrators or more number of narrators to
narrate a single plot in a particular novel
• Interior stream of consciousness with exterior action

12. JUXTAPOSITION
• Multiple points of view within the same tale.
• Frequent use of several characters-narrators
• Faulkner ‘s interest to tackle the reader with a series of
changing view points of the narrators
• The reader witnesses the same incidents several times
from several point of view

13. TEMPORAL REPETITON
• Faulkner revisits similar themes and repeats certaint
narrative patterns
• By juxtaposing a character type with other characters or
community , Faulkner is able to create real possibilites
for exploring human nature
• VIEW POINT
• FOUR points of view revealed throughout the the story,
the four narrators ;Benjy , Quentin , Jason and the final
section a third person narrator

14. SYMBOLISM
• Water ; symbolizes cleansing and purity throughout the
novel ,especially in relation to Caddy
• Caddy ‘s washing the perfume off , symbolically washing
away her sun
• QUENTIN ‘S WATCH; Symbolizes the constant
inexorable passage of time
• Shadows , caddy ‘s muddy drawers , broken
narcissus ,dilsey , the black house -keeper

15. FLASBACKS
• Recalling the past memories to lead the present is
nothing but a flashback
• Faulkner uses series of flashback in BENJY SECTION
of The Sound and the Fury
• Benjy reveals much about his family through flashback
interspersed with images of the present.
• The use of flashback is to make the reader see the
decline of southern family clearly through the memories
of its characters

16. Unreliable narration
• Unreliable narration is unworthy , incredible and
untrustworthy narrative
• William Faulkner uses unreliable narrators to create the
novels that reflect a historic perspective
• Give the audience a sense of disbelief or a level of
suspicion or mystery ;as to what information is supposed
to be true or false

17. Sum-up
Faulkner ‘ s method of combining stream of consciousness
, flashback, multiple narrators symbolism and unreliable
narrators ‘s results in narrative that is both a commentery
on history and a reflection of history