Theory Of Flannery O 'connor Build Modern Fable World

Flannery O’Connor was a famous American novelist in the contemporary era. To the readers, her works are full of religious color. In her writing, The South and the people, besides the scene of enlightenment, all the things radiate the mysterious light of the ancient Bible and make the novels become allegorical. This paper takes all the writers’ novels as the research object, following the Fable criticism of Benjamin about the modern art, and then discusses the formation of the allegorical world in the novel texts.This paper is divided into three main parts. The first part mainly discusses about the meaning of the South which O’Connor describes. This section analyses the memory pieces of the "South", the collapse of "family" and the dilemma of the area in the text, in order to reveal the writer’depression and rethinking about the South; The second part is based on the Southern fable, which discusses the sinners in trouble and their misfortune from the violent attacks. In addition, the section represents the broken South through people’s death and their bodies, conveying the writer’s redemption thought from those characters; The third part focuses on the religious belief of O’Connor, and reveals a more meaningful religious world beyond the reality. In this religious world, the novel text associates with the Bible, including biblical allusions and biblical imageries. Also, the U’s mode of narrative is used in the novels frequently. This section connects the South and the people with the divine light of faith, and incorporates all of them into a more allegorical theme.In the novels, we see the broken South, kinds of sinners in their existence dilemma and the mysterious color brought from the redemption of God. To sum up, the South, the people and religion become three indispensable dimensions in the world of the novels. On one hand, they reflect the ambiguity features of the allegorical text; on the other hand, combining with the Fable criticism, they provide a clear clue to let us come into O’Connor’s art world, and also enrich the novels’connotation from intrinsic criticism.