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【Abstract】Go Down，Moses is one of the remarkable works which has caught widespread attention from domestic and international scholars.With a brand-new angle of the relationship between social-historical factors and literature creation，referring to Faulkner`s life experience and historical background，this paper is an attempt to studies on Southern social culture and issue：moral depravity and moral reconstruction which are reflected in Faulkner`s fiction.
【Key words】Southern Society；Moral Depravity；Moral Reconstruction
【作者簡介】庞珺芯 （1993.6- ），女，汉族，黑龙江哈尔滨人，硕士研究生，哈尔滨师范大学公共英语教研部，研究方向：英语教学。
1. Introduction
The American South in 20th century is still a mysterious existence.It has unique charming that attracts more and more scholars which are delving into the ocean of books and exploring the culture and customs of southern society beyond the ocean.William Faulkner is a loyal and outstanding recorder in his territory.He grew up in the south and he made novels set in that land to open the way for his own world—a miniature of modern western society which shows the life scenes of America Southern society and changing times during the period of 200 years.An influential scholar Malcolm Cowley made a appraisal of Faulkner`s work in the preface of The Portable Faulkner.He argued that Faulkner is an epic poet or a troubadour who used a prose genre and a creator of myths weaving the legend of South.This not only shows that Faulkner`s work is the epitome of the southern world， but also appreciates his uncommon talents， colorful literary creation， power of observation， peculiar composing method and the greatest fictional achievement of Yoknapatawpha County.One of William Faulkner`s greatest collections of short stories Go Down， Moses is an important component of novels about “Yoknapatawpha”. The novel with hidden logic， obscure language and distinctive structure to reveal the vicissitudes of McCaslin`s prosperity and decline.The Faulkner`s creation inspired by his life experience and time background.And the literary works also reflect the contemporary social situation which is revealed in the author thought.If we want to learn more about living conditions of people and social culture in the south of America after the Civil War， Go Down， Moses might be the best choice.
2. Moral Depravity and Moral Reconstruction
In Go Down， Moses， with detailed description and shaping， Faulkner shows the most striking and obvious theme that is the loss of human ethic and the re-construction of values.He values family affection and treasures family all the times and to regard it as foundation of human`s life and future.But it`s worth noting that almost all the members in family of McCaslin are not happy in his novel.Although they have property， estate， slaves， and servants， they are almost all bachelors.Carother was living alone for a long time， feeling an unendurable sense of being alone.His two sons regard women as the plague with an unexplained fear.Because of falling into the trap， Buck is compelled to get married at the age of 60， and Buddy never married.When Ike is born， Buck is nearly seventy.He and his wife separates and spends a lifetime lonely.Consequently， this is the end of male offspring in McCaslin.That is roughly what happened in the branch of white daughter.Cass`s wife has never appeared in the novel， Zack`s wife dies in childbirth.And Roth himself is over forty and unmarried.In other words， a woman who is in the white relationships of McCaslin family has never been appeared in the story.If we trace the source of the family misfortune and the root of decline， that is incest， which makes the whole family enveloped in shadows of the damned to loss the ability of love.How many money to buy animals and slaves is recorded in McCaslin`s account book.Animals and slaves are equivalent in the aspect of social status and economic values which the hosts could deal with them any way they want. And the hosts are completely free from legal sanction.Faulkner `s representation of the once idyllic hunting camp shows that theirs participants and theirs activities to be as flawed as Carothers McCaslin was， at least in his rape of his black slave Eunice.Later， Carothers already knows that Tomasina is his daughter whose mother is a black female slave， but he still grabs his own daughter when she is 23 years old.Tomasina bears Tommy`s Turl.And then Carothers`s sexual depravity led both women-directly-to their deaths.This behavior of animals is the embodiment of the human moral depravity going against traditional ethics.It is not only roots in people`s moral nature， but also has the intimate social root—Southern slavery and private ownership of land in U.S.
【Key words】Southern Society；Moral Depravity；Moral Reconstruction
【作者簡介】庞珺芯 （1993.6- ），女，汉族，黑龙江哈尔滨人，硕士研究生，哈尔滨师范大学公共英语教研部，研究方向：英语教学。
1. Introduction
The American South in 20th century is still a mysterious existence.It has unique charming that attracts more and more scholars which are delving into the ocean of books and exploring the culture and customs of southern society beyond the ocean.William Faulkner is a loyal and outstanding recorder in his territory.He grew up in the south and he made novels set in that land to open the way for his own world—a miniature of modern western society which shows the life scenes of America Southern society and changing times during the period of 200 years.An influential scholar Malcolm Cowley made a appraisal of Faulkner`s work in the preface of The Portable Faulkner.He argued that Faulkner is an epic poet or a troubadour who used a prose genre and a creator of myths weaving the legend of South.This not only shows that Faulkner`s work is the epitome of the southern world， but also appreciates his uncommon talents， colorful literary creation， power of observation， peculiar composing method and the greatest fictional achievement of Yoknapatawpha County.One of William Faulkner`s greatest collections of short stories Go Down， Moses is an important component of novels about “Yoknapatawpha”. The novel with hidden logic， obscure language and distinctive structure to reveal the vicissitudes of McCaslin`s prosperity and decline.The Faulkner`s creation inspired by his life experience and time background.And the literary works also reflect the contemporary social situation which is revealed in the author thought.If we want to learn more about living conditions of people and social culture in the south of America after the Civil War， Go Down， Moses might be the best choice.
2. Moral Depravity and Moral Reconstruction
In Go Down， Moses， with detailed description and shaping， Faulkner shows the most striking and obvious theme that is the loss of human ethic and the re-construction of values.He values family affection and treasures family all the times and to regard it as foundation of human`s life and future.But it`s worth noting that almost all the members in family of McCaslin are not happy in his novel.Although they have property， estate， slaves， and servants， they are almost all bachelors.Carother was living alone for a long time， feeling an unendurable sense of being alone.His two sons regard women as the plague with an unexplained fear.Because of falling into the trap， Buck is compelled to get married at the age of 60， and Buddy never married.When Ike is born， Buck is nearly seventy.He and his wife separates and spends a lifetime lonely.Consequently， this is the end of male offspring in McCaslin.That is roughly what happened in the branch of white daughter.Cass`s wife has never appeared in the novel， Zack`s wife dies in childbirth.And Roth himself is over forty and unmarried.In other words， a woman who is in the white relationships of McCaslin family has never been appeared in the story.If we trace the source of the family misfortune and the root of decline， that is incest， which makes the whole family enveloped in shadows of the damned to loss the ability of love.How many money to buy animals and slaves is recorded in McCaslin`s account book.Animals and slaves are equivalent in the aspect of social status and economic values which the hosts could deal with them any way they want. And the hosts are completely free from legal sanction.Faulkner `s representation of the once idyllic hunting camp shows that theirs participants and theirs activities to be as flawed as Carothers McCaslin was， at least in his rape of his black slave Eunice.Later， Carothers already knows that Tomasina is his daughter whose mother is a black female slave， but he still grabs his own daughter when she is 23 years old.Tomasina bears Tommy`s Turl.And then Carothers`s sexual depravity led both women-directly-to their deaths.This behavior of animals is the embodiment of the human moral depravity going against traditional ethics.It is not only roots in people`s moral nature， but also has the intimate social root—Southern slavery and private ownership of land in U.S.