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A Prophetess in a Sinful World

Author: YeJing
Tutor: ChenLiHua
School: Central China Normal University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Flannery O'Connor Original sin Violence and death Salvation
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2006
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Abstract

O'Connor is the southern United States in the 20th century following the Faulkner after the most important writer. She unfortunately infected with erythematosus illness after she choked back pain still persist in writing, at age 39, passed away. Although there are not many of her works, including two novellas, 31 short stories, a lot of correspondence and review articles compiled into a set, finishing after Fitzgerald and his wife, were named as the \trace and performance \O'Connor was a devout Catholic, as a Catholic writer, she tried to her religious perspective to show to the people. O'Connor lives in the U.S. South is filled with a variety of spiritual and moral chaos, can be used as a religious revelation and religious prophecy elucidation cautionary metaphorical world. O'Connor has become a venerable female prophets of the sinful world, she broke the Southern tradition of literary writing \The crux of her condemnation of the people in the faith and moral depravity, and the courage to point out the problem, pointing out that the road leading to salvation Shining Path. Most of her work is about the idea of ??sin and salvation, a lot of misunderstanding and confusion caused to the general reader, and even many critics accused O'Connor works filled with evil and violence. Admittedly, she works a lot of the depiction of evil and violence, but with her religious beliefs and the life of the social background are closely related. This paper attempts to explain this puzzle puzzled most readers. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter introduces the the O'Connor life experiences and her three roles as a Catholic writer, Southern writers and women writers in the United States in the 20th century literary; Finally, at home and abroad O'Connor. Second, three, four chapters for the main part. The second chapter discusses the O'Connor particularly concerned about the cause of the evil. First of all, the Catholic Church that are born guilty, that original sin inherited from Adam. Evil is part of human nature. Only aware of their sin, sincere repentance, in order to obtain the grace of God for salvation. Secondly, in O'Connor, the life from the 1950s to the 1960s, the contemporary American society has experienced tremendous change and turmoil. Extremely rich in material life at the same time, the Americans also withstand the lack of religious beliefs, the American dream shattered pain, helplessness and despair, between people of truth desalination, the evils of modern civilization is also filled with American society As a keen writer and a high sense of responsibility, O'Connor that she has a responsibility to all people secular disguise stripped clean out all the obstacles in the road, the dark side of human nature is exposed, warning the world to redemption , pointed out that the one leading to the salvation of the Shining Path. In the third chapter in the historical evolution and the meaning of vocabulary introduced the concept of \of the crime, the sin of pride and self-interest of the crime in the fictional characters who show. O'Connor description of these evils, to show us all kinds of sinners like. O'Connor concept of sin for people with a

A Prophetess in a Sinful World

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