ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Southern Belle
13 Jun 2018
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ENG3378- June 4, 2018
Reminder essay due next class:
Judged on 3 things:
• How strong is the response?
• How appropriate are the books chosen?
• How you balance the two texts chosen- if you have 3 pages on one have 3 on the other etc-
depth counts as well
• Graar is’t goig to e too hea
Final
• Fully open book- no going online however!
• Since it is open book- details! Are expected
• Make sure you are organized- minimizing the amount of time you spend flipping through
The Sound and the Fury
• Of the authors looked at-by far the most experimental- but underlying traditional
• Keep in mind any chronology found online might not be very accurate- it is difficult to actually
plae soe of the details i order sie the do’t add up to e plaed soeties
• Faulkner purposely wants it to be a challenge- wants us to be able to use the jumbled pieces to
solve the mystery
• Jaso’s setio teds to e a lot less lear- perhaps due to Quentin and Benjy being so obsessed
• What is the nature of how he shifts in time? And when
• Faulkner believed his book failed splendid because it failed multiply- 5x over
• 5 because she is told by her 3 brothers, 4 from Falkner himself, and 5th from her not having a
voice at all
• Tragedy of both Caddy and her daughter- did’t at to rig them in directly- did’t at
them to have to speak for themselves- did’t at the to eplai their irustaes
• Bej’s irror orld- why does the two dimensional world seem no different to him then the 3D
world he lives in
• Parents fail- they fail at raising all the children and grandchildren to be functioning stable adults
• Eeroe i Bej’s setio is foused o Bej eept hiself
• Bej’s oie is supposed to e hua sufferig
• What causes him to be able to move so rapidly through time? How is he stuck/unstuck in time
• Jason-insistent-logic is un changing- once a bitch-always a bitch
• Not a right or wrong but rather moral
• Sense of belonging through his dependence upon Caddy
• Pg.53- Benjy is castrated- gate- trying to talk to the girls- scaring them-pacing the fence waiting
for Caddy to return from school- he a’t uderstad Cadd is arried ad goe- when girls
walk by the gate happens to be open- he goes up to the girl to ask where Caddy is- can’t say
anything- father of the girl believes Benjy is attacked
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