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This paper explores the aspects of irrationality in William Faulkner's two novels, The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. The irrational aspects in the novels focused on elaboration upon tragic elements like war, massacre, and violence in Yoknapatawpha County after the Civil War in the history of the Southern society of the United States of America. The Southern society of America was indulged in the glorious past but it was tainted with violent evilness, lynch, and even castration and murder. Faulkner, as one of the greatest Southern writers, suggested for hope and remedy for restoration of the South in the texts through women's benevolence and warmth, and feminine nature and generative quality to heal the deeply rotten and troubled Southern society with irrationality as well as stubbornness of the past. It is significant that the Nobel prize laureate with his clairvoyance had considered and depicted women well ahead of the era of white supremacy and patriarchy as the healer and curer of all the irrational evilness which had been executed in the deep Southern society.