The Sound and the Fury

Second Semester: Week One

Get your notebook.

Macbeth's soliloquy

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

Use whichever analysis tool you

prefer to get a firm understanding of

this piece of literature.

Research

Create an entry in your journal. Where was it being written? Who was writing this type of literature? When was it being written? What did this type of writing entail? Why were these authors writing this type of literature? How did they most often get their message across?

A modernist novel. What does that mean?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/

modernism.html

These are the characters you will be getting

to know:

Benjy Compson

Quentin Compson

Jason Compson

Caddy Compson

Dilsey

Mrs. Compson

Mr. Compson

Shreve MacKenzie

Quentin Compson (Jr.)

Chapter One

1. April 7, 1928. Benjy and Luster look for golf balls and quarters.

2. December 23, 1908. Benjy and Caddy take the letter to Mrs. Patterson.

3. 1912 or 1913: Family trip to cemetery.4. 1908: The day Benjy gives a letter to

Mrs. Patterson.5. 1900: The day Damuddy dies.6. April 25, 1910: The day T.P. and Benjy

drink "sassprilluh." Also Caddy’s wedding.

7. June 2, 1910: Quentin’s suicide8. 1912: Father’s death. 9. 1915: The day Roskus dies.10.1906: The day Caddy gives perfume to

Dilsey.11.1908 – 1910: Caddy and Charlie in the

swing.12.Spring 1910: A day after Caddy has left.

The day Benjy chases the girls.13.1900: Benjy’s name change; Quentin

fights at school14.1908 or 1909: Caddy’s loss of virginity

Highlight these 14 sections in your book with different colors

so that they contrast with each other? Some will

repeat.