Good and Evil in Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation,' 'Everything That Rises Must Converge,' and 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'
| Autor: | Yu-Chien Cheng, 鄭語千 |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 87 In most of Flannery O*Connor*s short stories, the characters go through an unusual, violent situation, and thus, the readers and the characters themselves can see what they really are. As a Catholic writer, O*Connor saw in terms of Catholic perspectives in her fiction, and she manifested human*s inevitable weaknesses which are evils but mostly ignored or mistaken for good. That is, O*Connor*s fiction compels us to reconsider our own instinctive moral judgements. In *Revelation,* in spite of being regarded as a good woman by the people around her and herself, Ruby Turpin is brutally attacked by Mary Grace, God*s messenger, because her *good* performance arouses God*s rage. In *Everything That Rises Must Converge,* Julian*s *good* motive to teach his mother a lesson about what the new South is all about is also questionable. In *A Good Man Is Hard to Find,* the grandmother, who appears to be a kind but meddlesome old woman, actually shares the same evil with the cold-blooded killer, The Misfit. In the thesis, the actions of the main characters in *Revelation,* *A Good Man Is Hard to Find,* and *A Good Man Is Hard to Find* are going to be exmained. In O*Connor*s stories, behind the violence and death is the hope of redemption. Her fiction demonstrates that through the violence, the ultimate destination of those travelling the long road of life can be achieved; it is the oven of redemption, in which the self-hood is given up. |
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