Absalom: A Coward

Absalom, what a stupid man, because he dared to stand up to rob David's throne. Absalom played his brave mark on the road down guy Goliath, but he was unnecessary David was released from his throw and suicide. Although the David error after Absalom's coronation experience can make his challenge to legalization and the only example of justice of David, they actually show that David can not see the moral traces of Absalom I will.

Like other novels by Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! Southern allegorical history; just like David king like Absalom's Bible story, the title itself means a selfish war selfish son, his father builds. The history of Thomas Sutpen reflects the rise and fall of the southern afforestation culture. Failure of Sutpen must reflect the weak point of the southern idealism. Sutpen tackled his "design" to prove that he was not willing to respect her marriage with a black woman, to firmly start destroying himself. Absalom talks about Absalom! Faulkner stated that the curse of the slave of the south workers and Thomas Sateng personal curse and scratches are thought to be too strong without making him a part of the human family

Absalom, Absalom! It shows how to complement the idea that different people's interpretations of different values ​​of different eras carry the truth. Faulkner said the novel relates to the personal destruction of the people of the society curseing slavery. A novel like Absalom, Absalom should definitely read but the classic "Sound and Anger" of another Faulkner in Quentin, but you need to read a novel to understand another There is no takeover sound and the universe gets full story of Quentin)