An Analysis of Women's Social Position in Early 20th Century from The Sound and the Fury

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10.2991/saeme-17.2017.43How to use a DOI?

Keywords

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, social position.

Abstract

The Sound and the Fury is the fourth novel of the representative figure of stream of consciousness literature in the United States, which is also William Faulkner's masterpiece. This novel, in a unique narrative way, tells the tragedy of a decline of the southern family-the Compson's family, in which there is enough despair and nihilism but not much love and emotion. The current domestic research mainly focuses on the narrative angle and the time view, while the foreign research mainly focuses on the world of women in plantation, so there is little research on the women's social position on that time. This paper attempts to analyze the social position of American women in early 20th century, from the view of main female figures, including Carry, Carry's mother Mrs. Compson, and their maid Dilsey.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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