The Sound And The Fury Essay

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family members have had some connection with time itself.
The Compson family hold fast to time and signifies loss. They are more focused on the old south rather than the new. In the Dilsey section there is the sermon about the resurrection that Reverend Shegog gives on Easter day. The resurrection is a rebirth of God coming back from death just as the south is trying to move forward from their "death" in the past. During the Reverend's sermon he says," I tells you, bredden, en I tells you, sistuhn, dey'll come a time. Po sinner sayin Let me lay down wid de Lawd, lemme lay down my load. Den whut Jesus gwine say, O bredden? O sistuhn? Is you got ricklickshun en de Blood of de Lamb? Case I ain't gwine load down heaven!" (295). A rebirth is starting over. The Compsons have had to go through a reawakening to the new south from their traditional old south. The renewal is unsuccessful in that they do not live on to be the family they once were. Now in the Dilsey section the ...

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