Field: American Modernist Literature Topic: American Modernism Subtopic: Women and African American’s portrayed in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. Limiters: a. The text The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner b. Lenses: Feminism, family systems theory and psychoanalysis c. Topic/theme: What the text is trying to say about women, families and their affect on the south Problem 1. What is a woman’s role in the society portrayed by the text and is it approved of by the text? 2. What values does the text uphold and how is this shown in the novel? 3. What is the text trying to say about the society that it portrays as far as how to improve it? Thesis The text may suggest that the treatment of women and African Americans by racists and patriarchs in the Jim Crowe south was detestable, but the south’s glory was further tarnished by women’s sexual choices that did not fall under the familiar patriarchal family system at the time.
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Field: American Modernist Literature
Topic: American Modernism
Subtopic: Women and African American’s portrayed in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.
Limiters:
a. The text The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
b. Lenses: Feminism, family systems theory and psychoanalysis
c. Topic/theme: What the text is trying to say about women, families and their affect on the south
Problem
1. What is a woman’s role in the society portrayed by the text and is it approved of by the text?
2. What values does the text uphold and how is this shown in the novel?
3. What is the text trying to say about the society that it portrays as far as how to improve it?
Thesis
The text may suggest that the treatment of women and African Americans by racists and patriarchs in the Jim Crowe south was detestable, but the south’s glory was further tarnished by women’s sexual choices that did not fall under the familiar patriarchal family system at the time.
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