The Strategy Of Characterization In Go Down, Moses

Go down, Moses is William Faulkner's thirteenth long novel. In this novel he succeeds in characterizing the persevering figures that the blacks present under the oppression and exploit, showing that they are brave to seek their dreams of freedom, extolling brotherly friendship between the blacks and the whites, and conveying the writer's positive and optimistic attitude towards the racial problems. This thesis is conducted with the aim at the detailed research on the strategies of characterization through the aspects of direct definition, indirect presentation and reinforcement by analogy so that we can have a good knowledge and command of the creating objective, creating thought, creating art to some deeper extent. This thesis is composed of five parts.The first part is the macroscopic introduction to William Faulkner's creating background, creating achievement, creating theme, creating style, and this novel's literature review.The second part is to probe how William Faulkner uses the direct definition to achieve the characterization, and what benefits the direct definition brings to the building of characters.The third part is to analyze indirect presentation in detail to probe which concrete functions that the use of this strategy brings to the molding of character traits from the aspects of character's action, speech, appearance, and environment.The fourth part is to explore the characterization in Go Down, Moses from the aspects of analogous names and analogous landscape and analogy between characters with the purpose of understanding the relationship between the use of reinforcement by analogy and the characterization in the text, and appreciating the creating beauty of the writer's special art form as well as the inner relationship between the novel's theme and characterization.The fifth part is the conclusion, which is to comprehensively review the strategies of characterization adopted in this novel and to point out that the excellent qualities William Faulkner advocates are presented lively and perfectly in Go Down, Moses.