The Sound And The Fury喧哗与骚动英文ppt

1、the sound and the fury,喧哗与骚动,william cuthbert faulkner (18971962), also known as will faulkner, was an american writer and nobel prize laureate. faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career.,faulkner is primarily know

2、n and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional yoknapatawpha county, a setting faulkner created based on lafayette county, where he spent most of his life,as i lay dying 我弥留之际 light in august 八月之光 absalom, absalom!,title,tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, c

3、reeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. out, out, brief candle! lifes 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 to

4、ld by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. act 5, scene 5 of william shakespeares macbeth,style and structure,the four parts of the novel relate many of the same episodes, each from a different point of view and therefore with emphasis on different themes and events. this structure

5、makes any true synopsis of the novel difficult, especially since the narrators are all unreliable in their own way, making their accounts not necessarily trustworthy at all times. also in this novel, faulkner uses italics to indicate points in each section where the narrative is moving into a signif

6、icant moment in the past. the use of these italics can be confusing, however, as time shifts are not always marked by the use of italics, and periods of different time in each section do not necessarily stay in italics for the duration of the flashback. thus, these time shifts can often be jarring a

7、nd confusing, and require particularly close reading.,structure,the novel centers on the compson family, former southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. over the course of the thirty years or so related in the novel, the family falls in

8、to financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of jefferson, and many of them die tragically.,my comments on the structure,mr. faulkners method in this book is successful. he begins by giving a general and confused picture of this family (the first sixty pages are told by a

9、 congenital imbecile. benjy has no sense of time, the whole of his thirty-three years are present to him in an streamless flood). however this rigmarole holds my attention. while reading, i was seeing the world through the eyes of an idiot, but so clever is the writer that, i was content to do so.,w

10、ith the second part the fog begins to clear. the narrator is now quentin, one of those vague figures. with the third and fourth parts, which return to the present day, the fog rolls away altogether and the story quickens. its here that i had understood more of benjys sound and fury than ive realized

11、,characters,小说的故事发生在杰弗生镇上的康普生家。一家之长mr.compson是一九一二年病逝的。他整天发些愤世嫉俗的空论，把悲观失望的情绪传染给儿子昆丁。 mrs.compson自私冷酷，无病呻吟，总感到自己受气吃亏，她念念不忘南方大家闺秀的身份，以致仅仅成了一种“身份”的化身，而完全不具有作为母亲与妻子应有的温情，家中没有一个人能从她那里得到爱与温暖。 女儿caddy是全书的中心，虽然没有以她的观点为中心的单独一章，但书中一切人物的所作所为都与她息息相关。她从“南方女”的规约下冲出来，走过了头，成了一个轻佻放荡的女子。她与男子幽会有了身孕，不得不与另一男子结婚。婚后丈夫发现隐情

12、，抛弃了她。只得把私生女（也叫quentin）寄养在母亲家，自己到大城市去闯荡。,哥哥quentin和凯蒂儿时感情很好。作为没落的庄园主阶级最后一代的代表者，没落感始终追随着昆丁。他极其敏感却又极其脆弱。他偏偏又过分重视妹妹的贞操，把它与门第的荣誉甚至自己生与死的问题联系在一起。caddy的遭遇一下子使他失去了精神平衡，在妹妹结婚一个多月后投河自尽。 jason是凯蒂的大弟。他和quentin相反，是一个实利主义者，仇恨与绝望使他成为一个没有理性的复仇狂与虐待狂。他一无资本，二无才干，只能在杂货铺里做小伙计。jason对caddy的感情只有恨。他恨caddy，也连带着恨她的私生女小quenti

13、n，恨关心凯蒂母女的黑女佣dilsey。除了钱，他什么都不爱。 benjy的智力只相当于三岁小孩。他没有思维能力，脑子里只有感觉和印象，而且分不清它们的先后，过去的事与当前的事都一起涌现在他的脑海里通过他的意识流。失去了姐姐的关怀后，家中唯一关心并照顾他的就只有黑女佣dilsey了。 quentin(小昆汀)是caddy寄养在母亲家的私生女。康普生太太的冷漠与jason的残酷使quentin在这个家里再也呆不下去。1928年复活节这一天，康普生家发现，quentin取走了jason的不义之财，与一流浪艺人私奔了。,my comments on this book,everyone who reads this book can read it a second time at least. to me, the essential quality of a book is that it appears different at every reading. the sound and the fury is such a book that can be read again and again. it is tremendously difficult to rea