An Analysis Of The Father Image In Light In August And Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner, the famous American novelist, has taken Oxford, his hometown in South of America, as a model and written a series of novels about a fictional place Yoknapatawpha. The thesis intends to analyze the father image of his two famous novels Light in August and Absalom, Absalom! on the basis of the background of the society and his individual experience. Joe's grandfather is a fanatical racialist, his adoptive father is a tyrant as well as a pretended pious puritan, Bon's father is a selfish and merciless killer. While Hightower and Joanna's grandfathers control their descendants firmly even after their death. The loss of humanity and the moral decline not only exacerbate the contractions within the family but also accelerate the pace of the disintegration of the American South.