Racial Treatment of Denial in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom

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.