Racial Treatment of Denial in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom
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Abstract
This research work explores how denial of racial equality shatters
the Southern white peoples' dream of achieving high social status. It
analyzes Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! to trace the source of the
protagonist, Thomas Sutpen's failure to found a noble family dynasty due
to his own failure to adopt an attitude of racial equality. The work is
divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the thesis. The
second chapter discusses 'race and 'race relation' as critical tools to analyze
the text. The third chapter analyzes the text to prove the point that racial
prejudice brings disintegration in the lives of the whites. The fourth chapter
summarizes the findings of the work.