Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury And Modern Christian Eschatology

Since we're not familiar with the tradition of western culture, our frequently reading the western modern classics by the Eastern culture field of vision and reading by mistake orinterprets literally have become the inevitable matter, and so it is with The Sound and the Fury.The Sound and the Fury, as one of Faulkner's epic poem works, referred to Joyce's writing techniques to a great degree, is different is that Joyce used the tramp experience of Greek hero Odysseus as its hidden clue what Faulkner made the history of the Holy Bible the hidden structure of the novel its. Thus, understanding of and knowing well to the Holy Bible, becomes a key to understanding The Sound and the Fury. This also is the key to understanding other western modern literature classics.The 20th century Hope theology has provided a new sight for us to the western modern text understanding. This article tries to make clear the connection between The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner and the tradition of the Holy Bible in the eyes of the modern Christianity. This may become the 14th way of watching the crows.In fact, Faulkner's backward time view, the technique of the stream of consciousness to show inner feelings and the Holy Bible images and the stories in the text everywhere and the naming of the text, the structure and the unique characteristic of the characters' destinies, unceasingly are reminding us of this fact that Faulkner was deeply affected by the US south Puritanism.We should say Faulkner in is contaminated in the religion. The conception on moral ethics, philosophy and thinking mode are one of the in-depth reasons for the profound multiple subjects in the Faulkner art creation and the pioneer characteristic of his modern novel art, which were formed in Faulkner's life and religion he has addicted in. All are stated as follows:Firstly, the text creation and naming, the metaphor of time and structure in the text, destinies of the main character in the Compsons, it opens out the trend of Christianity Eschatology in The Sound and the Fury for several aspects , namely.Secondly, the Holy Bible classical stories and the images are involved in The Sound and the Fury, such as the Paradise Lost, the Big Flood, Moses leaves for Egypt, Jesus' suffering distress and the discussion of significance of the Doomsday. Thirdly, it deals with the trial on modern times and modernists in The Sound and the Fury, as well as the hope of Doomsday that Dilsey represents.Fourthly, it analyzes the individual reason, family factor and the influence of cultural background that attributes to Faulkner's complex of the Doomsday. And it points out that Yoknapatawpha art world is the reflection of Faulkner's inferior complex, the heroic consciousness and the Christ complex, and is Faulkner's reposal about the Doomsday hope.Finally, the paper comes to the conclusion that The Sound and the Fury is a modern Bible about suffering and rescuing, in which embodies Faulkner's positive faith and aspirations on Resurrection at the end of the world.