Futile Salvation Real Life

William Faulkner claimed repeatedly that his intention is to"write man", write the conflicts between man and nature, man and God, man and man, and even man and his self. What he truly cares about and focuses on is the personal value and the wholeness of man's morality. William Faulkner makes use of the"tool"of the vainness of redemption on the Bundrens to inspect the moral dimension of the characters, and thus, unveil the truth of life. Thereby, man is living lonely in his own isolated world, and alienated relentlessly by the evil in him and the callousness in the outside world, staging series of scenes rather similar to the absurd theater. The endurance, however, is sure to bolster him to probe so as to be"better".The first chapter of this paper briefs on archetypal criticism and the traditional redemption mode, laying the theoretic foundation for explaining the irony of the redemption mode in the novel. In this chapter, the Christian background of the author is also given, so as to, from another perspective, argue the aim of the using of redemption mode: to unveil the conflict between the good and the evil in human being and to reveal the truth of life. The second chapter emphasizes on the irony made by the contrast and comparison between the traditional redemption mode and the redemption mode in the novel. The third chapter draws the conclusion by exploring the realistic reason of this irony. This chapter points out that the real cause of the vain redemption of the Bunderns is the truth of life------loneliness, dissimilation, absurdity, death and endurance.