DEPICTION OF THE 20TH CENTURY FRAGMENTARY SOCIETY IN W. FAULKNER’S AS I LAY DYING
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William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a masterpiece novel of the fragmentation in mood, mind, and action where the writer explores and investigates the different themes of existentialism, paradox, alienation, and miscommunication – all were lively active in the 20th century. Faulkner applies the stream of consciousness technique, interior monologue, and multiplicity of point of view to show the real like image of the South American multicultural society in the frame of present unreasonable, mental apathetic states, and selfdestructive devalues of the generation throughout the novel. The whole action is in the form of a ‘death’ journey: real external one and mental inner another.
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