On Ethic Narration And Narration Ethic In William Faulkner's Novels

William Faulkner is an important writer in the literary history in the world. The "Yoknapatawpha" fiction world built by him has become eternal classic. This paper tries to further explore the unique charm of Faulkner's works from ethics aesthetics and poetics, using "narrative ethics" and "ethical narrative" to analyze the ethics themes and aesthetics of Faulkner's novels and grasp Faulkner's literary ethics. From the perspective of "ethical narrative", it refers to the ethical theme of the novel. As social life is reflected in novels, the novels' content is necessarily related to ethics. In William Faulkner's novels, his description on the history of the South and about family and race is a rich storage of ethical materials for literary ethics criticism, rich, extensive and typical, providing a life that can be analyzed ethically. Ethical order and ethical consciousness have a close relationship with narration. "Ethical narrative" is the "narrative on ethics", through which the deeper core of ethics in the theme of fictions can be dug. "Narrative ethics" refers to the narrative techniques, narrative process, how narrative forms show the ethical implication and the interaction between ethics awareness and narration, between the writer and the reader, between the author and awareness of narrator. In expressing ethical themes, at the same time literary works is bound to have its own presentation and aesthetic demands, and this presentation and aesthetic demands have a wide range of links with its ethic tendency. Through analyzing links, we can further understand William Faulkner's works from the perspective of poetics. Narrative ethics is "the ethics about narration". In this paper, through analyzing the "ethical narrative" in the core of Faulkner's novels, the "narrative ethics" is grasped. "Narrative ethics" constructs the "self in a variety of ethical relations and has close reference relations with the themes, presenting the novels' ethical tendency and ethical orientation from narrations such as the narrator's intervention and perspective choice. The proposal of "narrative ethics" and the "ethical narrative" is not the simple combination of ethics and narrative, but focuses on the interaction between ethics and narrative. William Faulkner is a writer with strong sense of moral responsibility. His novels, such as Absalom, Absalom, Light in August, Go Down, Moses, The Sound and the Fury and so on, expressed a ethical core highly valuing courage, love, honor and racial unity using very delicate, sensitive, inclusive and reflective writing and style form able to anticipate the complexity of the world and people. In this paper, ethical perspectives on history, family, love, race, growth and ecology are utilized to analyze Faulkner's novels. In the course of this analysis, the author, from the perspectives of narrative ethics and ethical narrative, not only studies the moral and ethical themes in William Faulkner's works but also analyzes the aesthetic qualities and poetic practices, and further explores the structure between them and the close relationship between narrative ethics and ethical narrative presented in the works as a whole.