William Faulkner was a God-fearing man and wrote to similar people. However, in his Magnum Opus, “The Sound and The Fury,” Faulner goes out of his way to take another look at the Christian faith, highlighting the negative aspects of Christ and contrasting them with the glory and holiness of the resurrection . In “The Sound and The Fury,” each of the narrative characters represents a unique aspect of an imperfect Christ, while a simple guardian of the family represents the glory and goodness of the resurrection and the light of Christ. The reader encounters the first “Imperfect”. Christ” in the form of Benji Compson, formerly Maury, who is widely regarded as the loving Christ. Faulkner explicitly states that Benji is the Christ by not only giving him 33 years (traditionally considered the age of Christ at the time of the crucifixion), but also by setting his story on Maundy Thursday; in addition to this, it can be argued that Benji's fixation with trees is intended to remind the reader of the tree on which Jesus himself died. In the same way that Benji was linked to Christ, he is even more linked to love: he never attempts any form of violence, nor even engages in any malicious act during the course of his story. The loving Christ to whom Benji was linked is the Christ seen in John 8:7 (“Let him who has not sin cast the first stone”) or Matthew 19:14 (“Let the children come to me”). However, Benji is an imperfect Christ; he is too overwhelmed by his Christ-like love and emotions to do anything meaningful with his time aside from picking flowers, missing his lost family members, and going for walks. This, of course, could be attributed to the character's mental disability, but it could also be the cause of his mental disability; Faulkner the...... middle of paper ...... manner; she can be angry, but she is never angry unnecessarily. In summary, there is no doubt that William Faulkner intended the characters in his greatest work "The Sound and the Fury" to be parallels for some of the characteristics of Jesus Christ; Through selection of tenses, carefully employed diction, and selection of details, Faulkner made his characters perfect parallels to aspects of Jesus, albeit in a perverted way. There is no doubt that this was intentional and done to highlight a new way of thinking about the Christian faith. Works Cited  The Holy Bible, King James Version. Cambridge edition: 1769; King James Bible Online, 2014. http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/. Gunn, Giles. “Faulkner’s Heterodoxy: Faith and Family in The Sound and the Fury.” Fowler and Abadie, Faulkner and Religion (1991). 44-64. [Read, not directly cited]