William Faulkner’s Belief in Natural Law and Natural Rights in the Land

This present paper tries to present Faulkner as an agrarian realist, but with profundity and depth, rising above Erskine Caldwell. His realism shows what is true in an agricultural society, his depth and profundity speak in glowing rhetoric of the land and the part it plays in almost every aspect of southern life; and from his realism and his rhetoric, from his depth and his profundity, there evolves in his work a philosophy or a concept of land, its ownership and its fundamental character that is brilliant and humanitarian in its vastness of scope and its depth of understanding.