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René Girard, a French anthropologist and literary critic has explored the meaning of communal violence toward an individual for a long time. He goes into the theory of mechanism of scapegoat from King Oedipus story through Jesus Christ and to the present. I suppose the basic mechanism of life and literature has the same structure and in that sense I try to show that in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary and Light in August, the communal violence drives protagonists, respectively Lee Goodwin and Joe Christmas, into being lynched cruelly and inhumanely. Being different from established communal values or a stranger might be a victim of utter violence, which I believe is Faulkner’s life-long theme.
