Technique of stream of consciousness in William Faulkner's The sound and the Fury And As I Lay Dying

The Stream of Consciousness is known as a strong and modernist writing style that is capable of conveying the flow of thoughts, emotions, senses, and reflections of the characters. The technique carries the narrative to the timeless and location less perspective inside the character's mind, and the logic, punctuations, and reality of a narrator is left behind. Authors like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf used the technique, but arguably William Faulkner carried it to its next step with the way he used it in his works The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. In these novels, Faulkner portrays the characters and their reasoning using the Stream of Consciousness Technique in order to reveal to the reader the unspoken thoughts of the characters in their unorganized form, as they just come into presence. With this approach, Faulkner was able to focus the true nature of communication and how much gets transferred how much doesn't, and how the same events are reflected on the minds of several characters in different ways. The readers are treated with a challenging yet rewarding narration, where timelines fracture, omniscient characters are labeled "idiots", and introvert brothers are driven crazy over the immoral actions of their sisters. The first chapter of the study provides the definitions for the subject matter, inspects the origins, literature presence, and properties of the Stream of Consciousness technique. The second chapter provides a short biography for William Faulkner and a list of his works, then moves on to the novel The Sound and the Fury and inspects how Faulkner uses the technique to show the readers the inner world of the Compson family. Chapter three inspects the second novel, As I Lay Dying in the same manner, but for the Bundren family. The fourth and final chapter compares the use of the Stream of Consciousness technique in both novels. Key Words: Streams Of Consciousness, personal consciousness phenomenon, interior monologue, free indirect style, psychological, William Faulkner.