Hell (Location Key)

Book Two of The Hamlet ends with an italicized scene in hell, where "the Prince" of Darkness dwells in a "magnificent kingly hall hung about with the proud battle-torn smokes of the old martyrs" and where one can hear the "constant screams of authentic Christians" (168). The event that takes place in Hell can be read as a fantasy of V.K. Suratt's, and Faulkner is obviously being whimsical. But according to the protocols of this project, all 'Events' need to have an identified 'Location,' and so, just as we went to "Heaven" in "Beyond" and Absalom!, so here we have to go to "Hell." The place we chose to plot it on our map of the novel should be seen as another piece of whimsy.