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Faulkner Rhetorical Analysis

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Faulkner uses many rhetorical devices to create craft his novel which helps to establish certain themes as the story plays out. In order to depict different characters’ streams of consciousness, Faulkner makes use of typography, specifically the use of italics. The chapter’s in Faulkner’s novel oscillate back and forth between whose perspective we are experiencing. In the first chapter we learn about Lena Grove and what she experiences on her travels, but then the second chapter we are introduced to Byron Bunch and learn of his past and what he is experiencing. While Faulkner alternates between these different points of view, he uses italics to depict the characters inner thoughts. The stream of consciousness is a technique authors use …show more content…

Each character has serious issues and challenges they must overcome in their lives, and their thoughts help to establish these conflicts and how they truly feel about them. In addition, Faulkner uses specific syntax and dialect to develop his characters and their personalities. The syntax differed quite a bit between each chapter which aids in understanding more about that person’s stream of consciousness; the syntax Faulkner used in Lena’s chapters differs from the syntax you would find in Christmas’s chapters. Faulkner wanted to use the mirror the personalities through his sentence structure. So for characters who are having an internal struggle, such as Joe Christmas, his chapters are filled with many flashbacks, interruptions, and complex sentence structure to depict this internal conflict. The chapter’s told from Lena’s perspective are all relatively simplistic and matter of fact which parallel her personality. This helps to perpetuate Faulkner’s belief in people struggling to find themselves. So many characters in this novel do not know who they truly are, and the journey to discover your true identity is a difficult one. The use of dialect also helps to describe and give life to the characters. However, not every character has that traditional and stereotypical

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