Stream of Consciousness Technique in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Abstract

odernist literature involves several of many techniques. Stream of Consciousness is one of these modernist technique which borrowed from the Psychologist William James “The Principle of Psychology”. William Faulkner uses this technique in the studied novel The Sound and the Fury (1929). This dissertation examines the use of modern psychologist technique in The Sound and the Fury. The purpose of this research is to study the modern narrative technique employed by William Faulkner. More Accurately, this research seeks to investigate the use of stream of consciousness particularly with the character of Benjamin. This Investigation suggests that the use of different techniques such as stream of consciousness, fragmentation and multiple points of view all serve Faulkner to achieve his goal of presenting highly modernist novel and to achieve his innovative techniques. Faulkner uses and succeed in this technique in multiple critics of narrators. Faulkner employs Stream of Consciousness at Benjy’s character who had poor cognitive skills. Faulkner effectively uses stream of consciousness technique in “the Sound and the Fury