Spiritual values: A question of existence in william faulkner’s the sound and the fury and Absalom, Absalom!

Abstract

Values are the necessary code for human conduct for harmonious life of integrity. Human beings are rational; they have reason for each and every action. Their actions bring out their beliefs, attitudes and custom. William Faulkner in his novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! delivers perfect medium of the values in spirituality and absence in it. This research work focuses on the absence of spiritual values which lead to confusion and disorientation in the lives of many characters. All the characters discussed in the works of William Faulkner gives a perfect medium of trouble not only to self but also to others just because of the least consideration that is given to the values based on spirituality.