Light in August summary: Light in August is the story of several characters who move through their lives, affecting the lives of others, enduring hardships, overcoming obstacles, and sometimes succumbing to the hardships they face. From Joe Christmas, who spends his life fighting because of his parentage, to Lena Grove, who calmly accepts her life, a series of chance encounters ties each of them to the others.
William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to releas...
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In explaining the comic side of William Faulkner's fiction, it soon becomes apparent how indivisible it is from the tragic side and how the two are almost inextricably intertwined. Early critics who m...
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William Faulkner, one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century, was also a screenwriter. The first of four brothers, he was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the son of Murry Cuthbert a...
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William Faulkner was first and foremost a novelist, and much of his achievement in the short-story form is closely related to his accomplishment as a novelist. This does not necessarily imply that hi...
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William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major American 20th-century novelist, chronicled the decline and decay of the aristocratic South with an imaginative power and psychological depth that transcend mere r...
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Biography EssayWilliam Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as r...
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In Light in August, each female character introduced by William Faulkner is negatively portrayed. Faulkner presents the women as either married and connected to men, or unconnected with unruly indepe...
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In the novel, "Light in August," all the main characters are in some way alienated from the society in which they live. Joanna Burden, a white woman who lives in a plantation house two miles from t...
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An important conflict among many characters in Light in August is the effort to find a place in society while keeping an individual identity. Gail Hightower is a character that has been cast out from...
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William's Faulkner's novel, Light in August, written in 1932, is a masterpiece in American Literature. The story is set during the 1930s and centers around the lives of Gail Hightower, Lena Grove, an...
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Men's abuse of authority has been timeless. Debatably this has been an inescapable domestic tragedy. William Faulkner addressed this issue in his novel Light in August. Abuse of authority was the m...
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William (Cuthbert) Faulkner
William Faulkner
