Time is a reality that most people simply accept as an entity unto itself. People do not often stop and question time, or truly analyze it except when perhaps forced to in one way or another. Authors and poets often insist that the reader take a look at time in a way different than is normal. The following paper examines the theme, and the role, of time in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The paper examines them separately and then compares and contrasts the two.
In William Faulkner's novel time is a very obvious element as it involves the titles of the four sections. They are all different days and one of the four is from a different year. The sections are not chronological but follow this particular patter, April 7, 1928; June 2, 1910; April 6, 1928; and April 8, 1928. Each is told by a different narrator as well, further adding to the thematic elements of the novel. Often the theme of time is connected with the view of how often and......
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