Multiple Themes In William Faulkner's Light In August

Nobel Prize Winner, William Faulkner, devotes himself to exploring the problem of human heart on conflict with itself. As a distinguished representative of southern literature, Faulkner has drawn wide attention all the time. My focus in this paper is on Faulkner's seventh Yoknapatawpha novel, Light in August. This novel is exceptional and unique both in terms of controversial structure and the juxtaposition of multiple themes. In this novel, Faulkner juxtaposes many themes, such as the theme of racism, the theme of past and the theme of community. None of them can be superior to one another. Each theme can be adequately supported. In the limited space, the present thesis is just an attempt to analyze the employment of multiple themes presented in Light in August. The purpose of my thesis is two-fold: it examines some sensitive and inescapable issues in old south, and it also demonstrates Faulkner's eager concern with human fate through the elaboration of several themes.