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Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2021, 4(3); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040309.

On Analysis of the Archetype Images of the Water in As I Lay Dying

Author(s)

Yong Junying

Corresponding Author:
Yong Junying
Affiliation(s)

North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, 637100, China

Abstract

As I Lay Dying, written by William Faulkner who has been accepted as one of the representative writers in the American literature history, is a novel in which the biblical archetypes are widely used. Among those biblical archetypes of images, “water” is the most impressive one and by using it, Faulkner expressed his confidence that humanity can overcome all the hardships and evils.

Keywords

As I Lay Dying, Bible, Water, Archetypes of Images, Humanity

Cite This Paper

Yong Junying. On Analysis of the Archetype Images of the Water in As I Lay Dying. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2021) Vol. 4, Issue 3: 42-43. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040309.

References

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[2] Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. New York: Penguin Books, 1930.

[3] Jiang Dongyuan. The Image of Water in the Bible. Foreign Language and Literature, 2010(5), 115-117.