Bucking the Trend: Faulkner and McCullers. Create the Mammy Outside the Box

Faulkner and McCullers
Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill once had an idea to take something as complicated as ethics and apply a Hedonistic calculus as their method to determine right from wrong. They would ultimately base this determination on a measured degree of pleasure versus pain received from any action. Though a complicated theory, the simple matter that it rested on a complex series of formulas and calculations to determine the greatest good, proved little more than the simple fact that human nature, and human beings in general, cannot be defined by any hard and fast laws. …