The journey of civilizations from times immemorial to the present day is an interesting and intriguing tale of struggle of man with forces that surround him and influence his very being. In striving to exist, humanity always came across crossroads of prevalent religious as well as mythological beliefs that shaped the destiny and dimensions of the future cycle of life. Such clashes between man and God as enunciated in the Christian point of view at the beginning of the civilized world later changed to man v/s man with the progress of science and technology. Consequently, the world experienced such calamities as war, racial tension, sexual perversions, and intrigues of all types that put together proved a constant threat to the humanity as a whole. Ironically, man did learn to land on moon but could not learn properly to live with harmony on earth. Faulkner’s corpus deals with such basic human instincts in the most subtle and distinguished manner. He had a knack for dealing with the most awkward human dilemma in a manner most poignant in appeal and understandability. His short fiction provides a panoramic view of different shades of human life woven in the most complex situations ever thought of. Faulkner’s penetrating vision not only talks of the root cause of evil but also brings to fore that man can by discipline and hard work achieve goodness in a world so profusely riven with evil.
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