Faulkner And War: Enduring And Prevailing Against The Ideologies Of Fear
Abstract
William Faulkner, while extolling the virtues of individual freedom and liberty, resisted the temptation to rigidly standardize what these fundamental ideals entail. In placing-the emphasis of his life's work and art on the individual, rather than on set inflexible standards, he attempted to bring to light the diversity and richness of the individual experience. For when an effort is made to make codified yet ultimately confining systems of thought from open-ended ideals, they cease being ideals and become a fixed and intransigent ideology. And the danger of ideology is its dehumanization and reduction of the individual and an inevitable clash with opposing viewpoints, similarly arrayed within their own ideological systems: a clash, a battle, a war, in which the reduced integer becomes just another number in the machine, a pawn to be moved about and disposed of at will.
Description
Program year: 1992/1993Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Subject
William Faulknerideology
war
individualism
Soldier's Pay
Flags in the Dust
The Unvanquished
A Fable
Citation
Wang, Dean (1993). Faulkner And War: Enduring And Prevailing Against The Ideologies Of Fear. University Undergraduate Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -WangD _1993.