As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by American author William Faulkner. This Southern Gothic novel tells the story of the Bundren family in Mississippi as they attempt to transport the family matriarch’s body and coffin to her hometown in Jefferson. As I Lay Dying is noted for its innovative narrative style, employing distinct first-person perspectives of the main 15 characters in alternating chapters. Faulkner also employs a stream-of-consciousness literary technique, furthering a dreamlike atmosphere and tone in the work. As I Lay Dying explores themes of death, alienation, loneliness, and identity.
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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A Purpose for Degradation
People care about their outside appearance because it determines how others view them. In William Faulkner's As I lay dying, Anse Bundren does not appear to care. As Anse...
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In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Moseley provides the reader an escape from the delusional world of the Bundrens and a glimpse of society, as it should be. Appearing only once in the novel, th...
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A theme is a fundamental and often universal idea or ideas explored in a literary work. In the novel As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, many themes occur. One theme includes sanity and it states ...
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This is a story of a journey, the adventures on the road that creates disconcert. Having died while a son sawed her coffin beneath her window, Addie Bundren is carried away in the family wagon thro...
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William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize winning author, wrote the novel "As I Lay Dying" in six weeks without changing a word. Considering the story's intricate plot, not changing a single word seems like it...
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In every well written novel, the author gives an in depth description of the characters. To characterize is to describe the qualities or peculiarities of a character. Whether it is through characteriz...
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"As I Lay Dying," by William Faulkner, encompasses a complex story which is narrated by many different characters. Each character describes the situation that he and all the other characters are exper...
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In the 21st century, the ease with which man can communicate with man is remarkable. Due to revolutionary technology such as the telephone, cell phone, computer, the postal service, and the auto...
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The quest to bury Addie Bundren in her hometown seemed simple. The family made the journey, but hardship and hindrance marred its every step. The most significant conflict on the trip was that bet...
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A major theme in Mona In the Promised Land is the disconnection of Mona from her traditional Chinese culture. The implications of her break with her culture include a salvation through her Judaism, a...
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Symbolism And Self
What makes one individualistic and why does the whole population present contrasting characters? The self refers to the conscious, the reflective personality of an individual, ...
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As I Lay Dying, written by William Faulkner and published in 1930, is a wonderful novel that, contrary to most other novels it, leaves the reader pondering questions that it refuses to answer. The abs...
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As I Lay Dying Book Notes is a free study guide on As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Browse the summary below:
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As I Lay Dying