Quentin’s Journey toward Sister Death in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Jung Min Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제56집 3호, 87~106쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.12.31

국문 초록

Quentin Compson is a tragic hero who suffers from the decay of the family and the nihilistic lack of all idealism. He feels pressure of the burden of his family’s past greatness and its present decline, particularly in connection with his sister Caddy. As his monologue involves his desperate struggle for his sister’s honor, Quentin is abnormally preoccupied with her feminine chastity. Quentin cannot bring any of his acts to completion until he decides to put an end to his life. What occurs to him in the morning of his last day first are time and Saint Francis of Assisi, who feared death but finally became reconciled with his own mortality so as to call it his sister. Thus Quentin desires to finish his struggle with time and intends to adopt the fraternal view of death of Saint Francis. And then, for Quentin, death is another dimension of himself, a part of natural order. At last, he hurries to get everything in readiness in order to embrace his sister death.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Quentin's Obsession with Time and Shadow

Ⅲ. An Italian Girl and Quentin's Lost Sister

Ⅳ. Quentin's Longing for “Sister Death”

Ⅴ. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

Quentin Compson tragic hero little sister death Saint Francis of Assisi The Sound and the Fury