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Time in The Sound and the Fury - Online Term Paper

Time in The Sound and the Fury

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” William Penn. The passing of time has been acknowledged by everyone and everything we know. It was measured by the position sun in the sky before, now there is a watch or smartphone to tell you how much time there is left in a day. We all desire more time to do what needs to be done, or to do what we want to get done, but there is not enough time to accomplish both or sometimes even one of these. In The Sound and the Fury, the narrators Benjy and Quentin Compton show us that our lives revolve around the abundance or the absence of time, and how we as individuals should manage it wisely.

In the first section in The Sound and the ...

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past. Benjy does not want to accept that Caddy is gone. He believes and wants Caddy to always come home, even though she will not be coming home. Benjy represents what we most want, more time. There is never enough time to do everything we wanted to do, and yet we still try to accomplish it all. And when that time is available, it it wasted.

The second section in The Sound and the Fury is narrated by Quentin Compton, who is aware of the time passing by, but wishes it was not. Quentin “ tapped the crystal [of the watch] on the corner of the dresser” and “twisted the hands off”(51), trying to stop the time passing but “The watch ticked on”(51), still measuring out time by the seconds, but not keeping track of how many have passed, or are left. Quentin breaking his watch “gives us access to time without clocks” Jean-Paul Sartre says. Time without clocks can be infinite time, or none at all; there is nothing to tell you that you have a certain set time left, or you ...

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Added: 8/22/2016 05:13:15 PM
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