실존의 구도로서 과거/욕망과 상실의 서사-포크너의 『소리와 분노』

The Past in The Sound and the Fury: Existential Trope for Desire and Loss

Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury strives to inscribe the significance of traumatic loss of the past and reveals a poignant understanding of how the past affects contemporary life. The past/memory in the novel, emerging from characters' unfulfilled desire and sense of loss, presents different narrative aspects through which Faulkner attempts to configure the ‘ truth ’ or the whole of Compson family within a southern cultural and historical context. At the very center of the past/memory is Caddy Compson who not only defines her brothers' past but shapes the meaning of their present existence. By providing readers with each brother ’ s images and verbal traces of Caddy, that have affected their individual lives so greatly, Faulkner here not only questions the subjectivity of past/memory and textual ‘ truth,’ but more significantly probes human condition. painfully questioning how to live in the present with an excruciating and ineluctable past. The past, for the Compson brothers, certainly undoes their self identity. The past caned Caddy brings them only unfulfilled desire, despair, and a sense of loss and failure. For the brothers to reify and iterate the memories that are so traumatically painful. Faulkner revolutionizes the concepts of plot, time, and narrative flow: he grasps the fleeting images and transient moments of the past in the multiple forms of their remembering acts. The novel, problematizing the authority of narrative voice, shows the strategic deployment of each voice to mark the private narrative of individual desire and loss. This essay examines how the novel. recognizing the signification of past/memory that constantly impinges upon every present moment of the living, unravels the past called Caddy as the brothers' existential trope for desire and loss.