Absalom, Absalom

Absalom,Absalom The South in the nineteenth century gave an image of wealth, prosperity, and class. This however was an image, not a way of life. The road to this kind of life was one of betrayal, determination, hatred, etc. The South wanted ownership, it wanted something that it could touch and feel, not something that it could experience. This way of life is best portrayed by William Faulkner in Absalom, Absalom. This kind of …

…mistakes that he made stayed unrecognized until the end, and then even he did not notice them. Faulkner tried through telling Sutpen's life, to demonstrate to us that by not taking responsibility in the mistakes we make, and not recognizing that they're there, we will be doomed as a society. We are in fact digging our own graves. Until we can be responsible and caring, as a society, one by one we will destroy ourselves.