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.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Bayard Sartoris canonical 6
Young Bayard Sartoris 3
Colonel John Sartoris 2

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.

Sartoris featuresCharacter Bayard Sartoris
Sartoris featuresCharacter Bayard Sartoris
this entity surface form: Colonel John Sartoris
The Unvanquished mainCharacter Bayard Sartoris
The Unvanquished mainCharacter Bayard Sartoris
this entity surface form: Colonel John Sartoris
The Unvanquished narrator Bayard Sartoris
Flags in the Dust featuresCharacter Bayard Sartoris
Flags in the Dust featuresCharacter Bayard Sartoris
this entity surface form: Young Bayard Sartoris
Sartoris family notableMember Bayard Sartoris
Sartoris family notableMember Bayard Sartoris
this entity surface form: Young Bayard Sartoris
Bayard Sartoris relatedTo Bayard Sartoris self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Old Bayard Sartoris
Bayard Sartoris relatedTo Bayard Sartoris self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Young Bayard Sartoris