Informed by an attendant officer that his wife has died, Macbeth can only regret that military matters leave him no time at present to grieve. Significantly, the “sound and fury” passage in Macbeth (V, v, 17-28) which inspired the title and so much of the gloom of The Sound and the Fury is the key here. Macbeth is an illustrious nobleman and king-slayer, Dewey Dell an ignorant, sensuous poor-white girl. On the surface, of course, the two seem little related. Rosenman Lakehead University Although readers of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930) have noticed their general relationship to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, apparently the influence of Macbeth on Dewey Dell Bundren’s characterization in As I Lay Dying has been overlooked. A NOTE ON WILLIAM FAULKNER’S AS I LAY DYING John B. This and all subsequent references to “The Beast in the Jungle” are to this edition. 4Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle,” The Novels and Tales of Henry James, Vol. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ġ04 Notes 3Vaid makes no further claim for the scene than this.
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