Koncept disfunkcionalne obitelji u Kriku i bijesu Williama Faulknera

William Faulkner is one of the best known American authors of the 20th century. In his novels, Faulkner focuses mainly on the life in the American South, a place where he was born and raised in, and the changes following the lives of some aristocratic families. One of these novels, also his first famous novel is The Sound and the Fury. This novel depicts the decline of a once famous and reputable aristocratic family, the Compsons. The decline of the family ensued from the complex relations between its members which are the result of the inappropriate upbringing and inadequate parental care. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the three male children in the family and their sister, through which Faulkner portrays the decline of the family and the changes in the American South. This paper will try to show the importance of good guidance and the consequences of not having one by explaining the characteristics of four main characters of the novel. Because of the difficult and challenging childhood, and the fact that parents never showed any real love or caring, Caddy became a promiscuous girl who had to search for love elsewhere, Benjy, a mentally impaired child, became obsessed with order and impossible to silence, Quentin turned into a time- obsessed, suicidal maniac, and Jason came to be a materialistic misogynist