Faulkner's Condemnation of the South in Absalom, Absalom
William Faulkner came from an old, proud, and distinguished
Mississippi family, which included a governor, a colonel in the Confederate
army, and notable business pioneers. Through his experiences from growing up in the old South, Faulkner
has been able to express the values of the South through his characters.
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom offers a strong condemnation of the
mores and morals of the South.
Faulkner's strong condemnation of the values of the South emanates
from the actual story of the Sutpen family whose history must be seen as
connected to the history of the South (Bloom 74). Quentin tells this story
in response to a Northerner's question: "What is the South like?" As the
novel progresses, Quentin is explaining the story of the Sutpen myth and
revealing it to the reader. Faulkner says that the duty of an author, as
an artist, is to depict the human heart in conflict with itself. This
attitude is revealed in the conflicts that Henry Sutpen undergoes in
Absalom, Absalom.
Thomas Sutpen is the son of a poor mountain farmer who founded the
Sutpen estate. Thomas Sutpen stands for all the great and noble qualities
of the South, and at the same time represents the failure of the South by
rejecting the past and committing the same types of acts that his ancestors
did (Connelly 34). He rejects his own father to adopt a plantation owner
as his surrogate father, who acts as a model of what a man is supposed to
be. When the plantation owner tells Sutpen to use the back door instead of
the front door, Faulkner is using ...
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