Caddy and Benjy's Metamorphosis

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Beatriz Domingues

Ms. Landmark

IB English A1 (HL)

05 November 2008

Caddy and Benjy's Metamorphosis

Change is perhaps the most inevitable experience human beings can live through. By means of his novel The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner creates a microcosm of the Southern Aristocratic Society of post Civil War America by constructing the county of Yoknapatawpha. Faulkner represents archetypes of southern aristocratic figures and through them experiences change by means of the decay and corruption of the southern moral code these figures have once aggressively believed in. In the first section, change is evident in different proportions through Benjy's induction to alcohol and his alcoholic experience and through Caddy's physical image change portrayed by means of her wearing a dress and how this leads to a lack of tree smell recognized by Benjy and that solemnly in these pages can prove to be important to Benjy. Particularly on pages 40 and 41 of the first part of this novel, through the use of flashbacks, a clear naiveté motif and sensory diction, Faulkner demonstrates a slight corruption and change of Benjy and Caddy through Benjy's narration.

Faulkner's first literary