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Bayard?s Search for Subjective Truth in Faulkner?s The Unvanquished


Unlike Sarty Snopes of ?Barn Burning?, the narrator of The Unvanquished leads a somewhat existential life. Sarty takes an objectively moral stance when abandoning his abusive father. Conversely, Bayard Sartoris is faced with the ?ambiguity and absurdity of the human situation? and is on a search for subjective truth (Kierkegaard). Though he acts on behalf of his family, he does things that he knows can be considered wrong. Additionally, he is asked to believe new information and take in experiences that are foreign to him. For him, it seems that ?existence precedes essence? in his childhood. During this journey, Bayard describes instances in which his apprehension of information is primary, as is his need for empirical evidence.

As he is about to run headlong into the first Union regiment that he has ever seen, Bayard observes, ?There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in t... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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