The Sound and The Fury (1929) by William Faulkner, focuses on the stream-of-consciousness narrative technique used in his fictional novel. Faulkner uses motifs throughout his novel masterfully through time, shadows, order, and chaos that showcase the consciousness of his characters. These motifs are used continually as structures, contrasts, or literary devices that develop and inform the themes of the text. It focuses on the theme of corruption of Southern aristocratic values, economics, civil war, resurrection, revival, failure of language and narrative (www.sparknotes.com). The analysis of a motif as a thematic construction used by Faulkner makes it possible to identify the purpose of the device. In his novel, mechanism is used to develop an explicit character and point of view. Therefore, the author actually brings into existence an impulse by which the reader will be controlled exclusively by a motive. The use of a motif as a literary convention gives depth to the meaning of his novel. A thematic construct, a motif of time, is used by the writer William Faulkner to give connotation and form to his novel, The Sound and The Fury. The analysis of the temporal motif in Faulkner's novel as well as the examination of the critical theories of Jacques Derrida and Jean Paul Sartre reveal the function of time in the Quentin section. Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at John Hopkins in 1966 entitled “Structure, sign and play in Faulkner's novel”. Discourse on the human sciences” in which he explained the importance of identifying structure, sign and play in the application of his deconstruction technique. A deconstructive reading is a reading that analyzes the specificity of the critical difference of a text in relation to itself” (www.stanford.edu). Ap...... middle of paper ....... Page 108.Sartre, Jean Paul. “Time in Faulkner’s Work.” February 18, 2011. (www.ingentaconnect.com//content/berghahn/sartre/2001/00000007/00000002/art00005) Spark notes editors. William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury (1929). February 18, 2011. (www.sparknotes.com). Stanford Publishers. Derrida, Jacques, “Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences” (1966). February 18, 2011. (www.stanford.edu). Welzel, Martin. “The philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre in “The Transcendence of the Ego” and “Being and Nothingness”. » March 19, 2011. (www.mwelzel.de/sartrebeing/#vorbezeit).Johnduff, Mike. “Time and Derrida”. March 19, 2011. (www.mikejohnduff.blogspot.com/2008/03/time-and-derrida.html). Olson, Robert, G. “The three theories of motivation in the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. March 19, 2011. (www.jstor.org/pss/2378793).