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It is found that although these characters are generally considered evil, cruel and violent, they also possess tragic beauty.  \nKeywords: tragic beauty, bestial elements, Sphinx Factor, Faulkner’s fiction, Ethics  \nIntroduction  \nWilliam Faulkner (1897-1962) is one of the greatest novelists and short-story writers in American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, and is best known for novels such as The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom! Absalom! and short stories such as “A Rose for Emily”. In these works, he exposes evil phenomena of the society and attacks the evils in his characters. Some critics have attempted to argue for these characters from the perspective of ethical criticism. For instance, J. T. Irwin, in Doubling and Incest / Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner, studies incest and revenge in Faulkner’s novels. Jay Parini, in One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner, analyzes Faulkner’s family ethics. Wang Gang explores the imbalance of family ethics (Wang, 110) . However, Faulkner’s characters are often complex, difficult to be generalized from a single perspective. To the author’s best knowledge, few scholars have attempted to analyze his characters by employing the theory of Sphinx factor, nor have they discussed the Sphinx factor from tragic aesthetics. It is with this in mind that the author of this paper attempts to study the complexity and multifaceted nature of Faulkner’s characters by using the theory of Sphinx factor.  \nNie’s Literary Ethical Criticism  \nProfessor Nie Zhenzhao proposes literary ethical criticism in the early 21st century. Some scholars have used his Sphinx factor to analyze emotions and morality of literary characters from the perspectives of human and beast factors. Nie contends that we are a combination of human and beast factors. The “Sphinx factor” consists of the human factor and the beast factor, which are organically combined to form a complete person (Nie, 2014, p. 38). In general, the human factor is praised while the beast factor is attacked. It seems that there is no exception. However, as both the human and beast factors constitute a person and are integral parts of an individual, we should examine their respective values with a neutral perspective rather than favoring one over the other.  \nAccording to Nie, the beast factor is also known as the animal factor, representing instinct and free will, while the human factor is synonymous with rationality. The human factor is considered superior, whereas the  \nLIU Xiao-ran, Ph.D. Candidate, Faulty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.  \nbeast factor is deemed inferior (Nie, 2014, p. 38) . Some individuals possess more of the human factor, while others have a greater amount of the beast factor. The beast factor is part ofa person’s animalistic instincts. It is a remnant of animal instincts ofthe evolutionary process and represents the bestial aspect within humans, driven by primal desires. Its external manifestation is seen in natural and free will (Nie, 2014, p. 39) . “If the subject relinquishes their free will and submits to the inevitable dictates of reason, they cannot enter the tragic movement of self-completion but instead lose the tragic spirit of humanity in the drama of self-preservation”(Xiang, 2003, p. 22) . In a certain sense, many of Faulkner’s characters embody this kind of tragic beauty.  \nSutpen, Miss Emily and Jason: Three “Villain Characters”  \nIn Absalom, Absalom!, the protagonist Sutpen is seen by most critics as a villain (Xiao, 1992, p. 77) . Few critics have","cbCaiovL3rsUF2oD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiovL3rsUF2oD","pdf",337887,1,4,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Nie’s Literary Ethical Criticism\n## Sutpen, Miss Emily and Jason: Three “Villain Characters\"","[{\"question\":\"本文使用了什么理论来分析福克纳的反派人物？\",\"answer\":\"本文应用“Sphinx Factor”理论分析福克纳小说中的角色，并考察其人性因素与兽性因素的结合。\"},{\"question\":\"在尼的文学伦理批评中，“Sphinx factor”由哪些部分构成？\",\"answer\":\"“Sphinx factor”由人性因素与兽性因素构成，二者有机结合成完整的个体。\"},{\"question\":\"本文认为福克纳反派人物的“悲剧性美感”体现在哪里？\",\"answer\":\"尽管这些角色常被视为邪恶与暴力，文中指出他们在悲剧性的自我完成过程中展现出复杂而多面的悲剧之美。\"}]","Tragic Beauty of Faulkner’s Villain Characters | PDF",1787783360,6,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":85,"head_meta":87,"extra_data":89,"updated_unix":28},"tragic-beauty-of-faulkners-villain-characters","",{"@graph":36,"@context":84},[37,52,67],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,47,50],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",{"item":48,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":49},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":51,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":21},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/tragic-beauty-of-faulkners-villain-characters/148694/",{"url":51,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":41,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-09-05","2026-08-26",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":11},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70,76,80],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"本文使用了什么理论来分析福克纳的反派人物？","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"本文应用“Sphinx Factor”理论分析福克纳小说中的角色，并考察其人性因素与兽性因素的结合。","Answer",{"name":77,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":78},"在尼的文学伦理批评中，“Sphinx factor”由哪些部分构成？",{"text":79,"@type":75},"“Sphinx factor”由人性因素与兽性因素构成，二者有机结合成完整的个体。",{"name":81,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":82},"本文认为福克纳反派人物的“悲剧性美感”体现在哪里？",{"text":83,"@type":75},"尽管这些角色常被视为邪恶与暴力，文中指出他们在悲剧性的自我完成过程中展现出复杂而多面的悲剧之美。","https://schema.org",{"og:url":51,"og:type":86,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":88,"canonical":51},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":91},[92,96,99,103,108,112,117,122,127,130,134],{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},80,"literature",{"id":21,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":104,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":109,"show_sort_weight":110,"slug":111},"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":113,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":114,"show_sort_weight":115,"slug":116},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":118,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":119,"show_sort_weight":120,"slug":121},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":126},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":129},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":131,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":132,"show_sort_weight":131,"slug":133},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":135,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":136,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":137},19,"General","general"]