ENG250Y1 Lecture : ENG250 - January 30 - William Faulkner.docx
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Benjy can be considered one of the purest members of the family but he is sort of forced into his purity as opposed to it being a choice that he makes. There are other allusions to purity as well that confuse us though. For example, the female quentin is sometimes given allusions that make us think of innocence and purity but she is a promiscuous girl so it"s a juxtaposition. We looked at caddy as eve and the idea of a paradise lost when she "disappears" and falls from grace. How does this book"s symbolism make us think about america as a virgin land and the family embodies how the american people have dealt with and coped with the taking of said land and ideas. It seems that christian mythology will help us through the book near the end but the novel doesn"t give us a summing up of the events.
