Character Analyisis of Benjy from William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".
Title: Character Analyisis of Benjy from William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1229 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Character Analyisis of Benjy from William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1229 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Life's But a Walking Shadow
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- Shakespeare's Macbeth; Act V, Scene v, Lines 26-30
How better could one describe the narrative of the beginning of this book than "told by an idiot," for told by an idiot …showed first 75 words of 1229 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1229 total…seems the only thing he wants in life is Caddy, but that is the one thing he can't have. Is it unrealistic that all a pitiful soul with an undeveloped mind can have such ideas and experience such emotions as Benjy does; or is Faulkner being honest in showing the cruelty and irony of life by giving such knowledge and abstract wisdom to the only one who cannot share it with the one he loves?
