Bayard Sartoris
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Bayard Sartoris is a recurring member of the Sartoris family in William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County saga, often embodying themes of Southern honor, decay, and the burden of family legacy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bayard Sartoris canonical | 6 |
| Young Bayard Sartoris | 3 |
| Colonel John Sartoris | 2 |
| Old Bayard Sartoris | 1 |
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsDuringFictionalPeriod |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Reconstruction era ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Flags in the Dust
ⓘ
Sartoris ⓘ The Unvanquished ⓘ “An Odor of Verbena” ⓘ “Raid” ⓘ Retreat ⓘ
surface form:
“Retreat”
“Skirmish at Sartoris” ⓘ The Unvanquished ⓘ
surface form:
“The Unvanquished” (short story, later expanded)
Vendee ⓘ
surface form:
“Vendee”
|
| associatedWithFamily | Sartoris family ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Southern honor
ⓘ
burden of family legacy ⓘ decay of the Old South ⓘ memory and history ⓘ violence and its renunciation ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment | moves from a code of violent honor to a more modern moral stance ⓘ |
| countryOfAuthor |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | William Faulkner ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWork |
The Unvanquished
ⓘ
surface form:
The Unvanquished (1938, in composite form)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSettingContext |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
postbellum Mississippi ⓘ |
| homeTownInFiction | Jefferson, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Southern Gothic
ⓘ
modernist fiction ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| memberOfFictionalGroup | Southern planter aristocracy ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | confronts his father’s killer without taking revenge in “An Odor of Verbena” ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Miss Jenny Du Pre
ⓘ
surface form:
Aunt Jenny Du Pre
Colonel John Sartoris ⓘ Drusilla ⓘ Bayard Sartoris self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Old Bayard Sartoris
Bayard Sartoris self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Young Bayard Sartoris
|
| roleInFamilySaga | carrier of the Sartoris family legacy ⓘ |
| setInFictionalLocation | Yoknapatawpha County ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
conflict between personal conscience and inherited honor code
ⓘ
transition from Old South values to new ethical codes ⓘ |
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colonel John Sartoris
this entity surface form:
Colonel John Sartoris
this entity surface form:
Young Bayard Sartoris
this entity surface form:
Young Bayard Sartoris
this entity surface form:
Old Bayard Sartoris
this entity surface form:
Young Bayard Sartoris