著者

千葉 淳平

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

英米文学 (ISSN:04246853)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, pp.93-107, 2008-03

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Reality can be generally operceived only through words, yet they inevitably distort it. Reality acquires an aspect which is different from what it is at the moment when it is put into words, accordingly we can not perceive the immaculate reality. This essay argues that in The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner makes us aware of the existence of reality as it really is however words might warp it. By creating benjy Compson, a speechless mentally retarded person, as the narrator of the first chapter of The Sound and the Fury Faulkner makes an attempt to grasp reality as what it is. Benjy can perceive reality through not words but his various senses. In this paper I will analyze the relationship between Benjy and words focusing on his senses in order yto delve into the nature of words and examine the function of Benjy's section among the other sections.