The Echoing Of Eternal Melody

There is a profound Christian culture background in American literature. Modernistic literature also applies mythical mode. Under religious background of American literature and the tide of modernism, Faulkner makes use of the Bible resources in his own and unique way.Puritanism in South American contorts "the Holy Bible" arbitrarily, uses "the Holy Bible "to defend racism, and gives birth to southern women's ethics and patriarchy wrongly from "the Holy Bible ". Faulkner can steer clear of the obstacles set up by puritans. He criticizes Puritanism. He understands "the Holy Bible" in the position of humanitarianism. Meanwhile, his humanitarianism is the humanitarianism proceeding from the thought of "the Holy Bible ". He obtains its thought quintessence from "the Holy Bible ".Also he has gone out of the constraint of "the Holy Bible ", expressing diversified thoughts in the works. He not only imbibes certain thought achievements from "the Holy Bible", but also uses "the Holy Bible" from all respects in order to strengthen the artistic results of his works.Faulkner's works is running through two principal themes coming from "the Holy Bible ": The theme of "losing the paradise" and " suffering". The crime show under the balance of God's mortal standard in "the Old Testament" and the hope of salvation after Christ coming in the "New Testament "mutual to appear among Faulkner's works. The novels have reflected two kinds of consciousness included in "the Old Testament" and "the New Testament ".Faulkner uses character prototypes, character relationship modes, plotting modes, imagoes and so on in the "the Holy Bible" extensively in his works, to look for parallelisms between "the Holy Bible" and his stories.Faulkner's application to "the Holy Bible" is not only to the application of the contents of "the Holy Bible", but also to the simulation the form of "the Holy Bible". The structure of Yoknapatawpha novels is extremely similar to the structure of "the Holy Bible ". In addition, he divides the multiplex meanings in Bible persons and Bible stories, using one meaning in one particular situation. This method produces the concord between his story materials and the experiences of "the Holy Bible ". Such special application method produces an objective result of irony. In the contrasting of his story and the Bible story, Faulkner adds abundant historical meanings and cultural meanings to his persons and stories. Thus the individual experience turns into mankind's emotions applicable to all. This make his stories surmount the South, surmount the U.S.A., represent panhuman history and present, have the manner of the epic. Faulkner imitates the eternity of " the Holy Bible " in his works all by himself.