In the quote that Faulkner adapts, Macbeth himself is thinking about how nothing seems to be worth anything anymore. It’s probably fitting, then, that he chose to use Macbeth’s meditations on how his world has fallen apart at the end of the play. As you probably guessed from reading Faulkner, he tends not to like comedy as much as he looooves a good tragedy. It’s on us.) Back to Shakespeare and The Sound and the Fury, however as we were saying, "sound and fury" comes from a very famous play. If you’re a basketball player, all those sweet moves you’ve got might just be described as your oeuvre. "Oeuvre" is a French word that describes an author’s/creator’s entire body of work. (Since Faulkner’s using lots of high-brow literary language, we here at Shmoop thought that we would, as well. (Shakespeare, in case you were wondering.) The Sound and the Fury is actually a reference to one of the most famous ending soliloquies in Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Need a title? Might as well turn to the greatest author in the English language. We’ve got to hand it to Faulkner: the guy draws from only the best sources.
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