Exploring Objectivity and Subjectivity in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930) through The Analysis of Multiple Narration and Stream of Consciousness

Abstract

William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying (1930) is a Modernist novel which is characterized by the use of several narrative voices that tell the events of the story. It is also characterized by the use of stream-of-consciousness writing style to depict the character’s minds at work, the fact which raises the question of whether As I Lay Dying is considered objective or subjective, or perhaps both. Based on research on the notions of objectivity and subjectivity on a hand, and the literary techniques used in As I Lay Dying on the other hand, this dissertation will explore the passages and sentences where objectivity and subjectivity take a place in the novel. In order to achieve this purpose, the Qualitative Approach is relevant. In order to fulfill the aim of this dissertation which is exploring and contrasting Objectivity and Subjectivity in As I Lay Dying through the analysis of the elements and techniques used in the novel, the Exploratory and Analytical methods will be used to explore and analyze terms like Objectivity and Subjectivity