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A 5 page character analysis which compares and contrasts Jack Burden's mother in Robert Penn Warren's 'All the King's Men' with Caroline Compson, the matriarch in William Faulkner's. The Sound and the Fury.
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They understood what the South meant to the old plantation families who could trace their lineage back to Robert E. Lees ancestors, and they also recognized the importance of tradition,
aristocracy and social standing. Warrens novel, All the Kings Men, and Faulkners The Sound and the Fury were both published shortly after World War II, and though they emphasized
different aspects of the South -- political corruption and the displacement of antebellum values in a postmodern world -- both novels explored the role of mothers in what was still
a predominantly patriarchal society. Jack Burdens mother name is never mentioned in All the Kings Men, but her presence influences every observation the narrator (who is also her son) makes.
Jacks attorney father, Ellis, left for work one day when Jack was six, and never returned. An Oedipal relationship between mother and son quickly developed which closely resembles
that of Hamlet and his mother. For the most part, Jack Burdens mother has made him the center of her orderly universe, because, in many ways, he is the
only constant of her life. Jacks mother only wants the best for her only child, and she wont settle for anything less, because in a very real sense, his
success is also her own. Jacks mother dotes on him, and in turn, she becomes the center of his universe. However, Jacks mother also likes men, and enters
into a series of marriages, which leave Jack feeling hurt and confused. She, cruelly, lavished all of her affections on her son, until another man entered the picture.
Jack would resent their intrusion into their lives, and also grow increasingly annoyed at what he perceived as his mothers frequent betrayals of him. There is little doubt that
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