The Compsons Decline

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The Compsons Decline
Impersonating a family possession can tear the minds of the family. William Faulkner’s book The Sound and The Fury is the story of a noble family’s inglorious fall from grace. The Compsons are a southern aristocratic family with numerous psychological problems. The story is told by four characters, all have a part to prove how they were involved in the shameful downfall of the once powerful Compson family. The novel illustrates to the readers how corruption among multiple family members can tear down a whole family in a period of time.
Innocence is a highly respected chastity in religions specifically Christianity. The Compson family heavily believed in the purity of the human body, but their vow was disrupted by an individual non-other than the young Candace “Caddy’ Compson. “I wont anymore, ever. Benjy. Benjy.” (p. 48). Benjy catches her on the swings being promiscuous with a boy named Charlie. When she is eighteen years old, she would lose her virginity to Dalton Ames and be married …show more content…

The Compson family has a multitude of problems, ranging from psychological damage to physical damage. The catastrophic events that the Compson’s have had to endure, transformed their lives to what was once a peaceful life for them, to a life they now despise. The Compson family reign as a once powerful, southern aristocratic family, has finally ceased.
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Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury. Vantage, 1995.
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