who said it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury
Macbeth
title: The Sound and the Fury text: to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. </poem> Immediately obvious is the notion of a "tale told by an idiot," in this case Benjy, whose view of the Compsons' story opens the novel. The idea can be extended also to Quentin and Jason, whose title: Moby-Dick text: echo the famous phrase in "Macbeth": "Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." As Matthiessen demonstrates, Ahab's first extended speech to the crew, in the "Quarter-Deck" (Ch.36), is "virtually blank verse, and can be printed as such": But look ye, Starbuck, what is said in heat, That thing unsays itself. There are men From whom warm words are small indignity. I mean not to incense thee. Let it go. Look! see yonder Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn-- Living, breathing pictures painted by the sun. The pagan leopards—the unrecking and Unworshipping things, that live; and seek and title: Herman Melville text: famous phrase in "Macbeth:" "Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing." Ahab's first extended speech to the crew, in the "Quarter-Deck" (Ch.36) is practically blank verse and so is Ahab's soliloquy at the beginning of "Sunset" (Ch.37):'I leave a white and turbid wake;/ Pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail./ The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm/ My track; let them; but first I pass.' Through Shakespeare, Melville infused "Moby-Dick" with a power of expression he had not previously possessed. Reading Shakespeare had been "a catalytic agent" for Melville, one that transformed his writing from merely title: The Sound of Fury (film) text: The Sound of Fury (film) The Sound of Fury (reissued as Try and Get Me) is a 1950 crime film noir directed by Cy Endfield starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, and Lloyd Bridges. The film is based on the 1947 novel "The Condemned" by Jo Pagano, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on events that occurred in 1933, when two men were arrested in San Jose, California, for the kidnap and murder of Brooke Hart. The suspects confessed and were lynched by a mob of locals. The 1936 film "Fury," directed by Fritz Lang, was title: The Sound and the Fury text: (especially at the end) Faulkner completely disregards any semblance of grammar, spelling, or punctuation, instead writing in a rambling series of words, phrases, and sentences that have no separation to indicate where one thought ends and another begins. This confusion is due to Quentin's severe depression and deteriorating state of mind, and Quentin is therefore arguably an even more unreliable narrator than his brother Benjy. Because of the staggering complexity of this section, it is often the one most extensively studied by scholars of the novel. The third section is narrated by Jason, the third child and his mother Caroline's