Why is Quentin so ridiculously invested in protecting his sister? We suggest that you read our character analysis of Mrs. Compson for some sense of just how much pressure the poor kid was under. As he reflects, "Father and I protect women from one another from themselves our women" 2. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By William Faulkner. Quentin Compson III. Edgar Allan Poe's Influence on Literature. Quentin Tarantino. Famous Creative Thinkers in the World. Philippine Constitution - Article Iii.
Macbeth acts I-III. As Faulkner said in "The Paris Review," the novel is "a tragedy of two lost women: Caddy and her daughter. Quentin , the oldest of the Compson children, is like Shakespeare's Hamlet.
He gets bogged down in the act of contemplation; he thinks too long upon a subject and cannot bring any of his acts to completion. He ends his life by drowning himself in the river. The question is, what caused him to commit suicide?
Why is Quentin obsessed with time? Unlike Benjy, who is oblivious to time, Quentin is so obsessed and haunted by it that he sees suicide as his only escape. Clearly, the main thrust of Quentin's section is his struggle with Caddy's promiscuity. Quentin is horrified by Caddy's conduct, and he is obsessed by the stain it has left on the family's honor. Is Quentin a boy or a girl Faulkner?
Quentin Compson. Quentin Compson is a fictional character created by William Faulkner. He is an intelligent, neurotic, and introspective son of the Compson Family. How old is Benjy? The work chronicles the decline of the Compson family, a group of prominent southerners, through four narrators. Whereas Benjy's section only recorded sense impressions that had symbolic significance, Quentin's section plunges into the depths of motivation and into the causes and effects of certain actions.
Throughout the section, Quentin's chief concern is with Caddy's sins and her loss of virginity. The section opens with Quentin's concern over time and his remembrance of his father's comment about time. Interestingly, the entire section is interspersed with various comments that Mr.
Compson makes about many aspects of life. Compson's philosophy is couched in terms of cynicism and determinism. He believes, for example, that there are no significant values in life and that time cures all things. This is the philosophy that Quentin strives to deny but is unable to do so. Quentin's concern with time and with his father's cynical view of life will become clearer as the section progresses.
Though Mr. Compson is not particularly upset when he discovers Caddy's pregnancy, Quentin is horrified. He cannot understand Compson's pragmatic view that virginity is an "invention" of men and of very little concern to women. Quentin, still a virgin himself, is hurt by his father's attitude.
Quentin cannot accept what he feels is Caddy's dreadful sin, and neither can he accept his father's indifference to it. His father believes that all human experience is absurd and therefore Caddy's sin and Quentin's grief are both absurd. If this is so, then all of Quentin's values are meaningless, and Quentin cannot live without a system of values. In truth, Quentin wants to remember his horror; he is afraid he will forget — his father has said so. If Quentin can forget, then his horror has no meaning, and the passage of time will wipe it out.
He feels that he must stop time. To do this, Quentin is constantly trying to escape from time, as represented by his act of tearing off the hands of his watch. Symbolically, this will stop time before it time allows him to forget his bereavement. Ironically, however, even though Quentin is trying to escape from time, he constantly inquires about the correct time and is pleased to see that the watches in the window lie about the correct time p.
Ultimately, suicide becomes his only means of stopping time and escaping from the absurdities of life. Suicide, in his father's view, will be the final absurdity.
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