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In the novel, The Sound and the Fury (1929), William Faulkner, makes the reader aware of the treatment of the mentally ill and challenged in the early twentieth century through the Compson Family.
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In the novel, The Sound and the Fury (1929), William Faulkner, makes the reader aware of the treatment of the mentally ill and challenged in the early twentieth century through the Compson Family. The novel tells the story of the deterioration of the family members of the old, southern aristocratic, but dysfunctional, Compson family and their servants, over a period of eighteen years. It soon becomes evident that different types of mental illness are manifested within each family member in varying degrees and forms. The Compson Family is held together and tenderly cared for by Dilsey, undeniably the strongest and most loving character in the book. To begin, my research paper, a quick look at each of the main characters is necessary. Jason Lycurgus Compson, III the patriarch of the family, descended from apparently wealthy aristocratic plantation owners from the pre Civil War era (Volpe 104). Other than farming,...
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