The Crucifixion Theme And Narration Of O'connor's Novels: A Religious Perspective

Flannery O'Connor is a famous American Southern writer,known as "one of the best American novelists in the 20 th century".With a multiple identities of American Southern writer,woman writer,devout Catholics,been suffering from lupus erythematosus disease,which contributed to the complexity and richness of her works.Many domestic and international researchers have carried out multi-angle and multi-level explanations on her novels.Based on the existing achievements,The thesis puts O'Connor in the southern American cultural context and analyzes her novels on the basis of combing her religious thoughts in the crux of the subject and narrative,to explore the relationship between violence,crucifixion and salvation.The thesis includes three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.On the introduction part,the thesis firstly make a brief outline of Alice Munro and her accomplishments of writing,review domestic and international research achievement,and indicate the points that need to be studied.Secondly,the thesis analyzes the formation of O'Connor's religious belief and the religion narrative of the novel,and clarifies O'Connor as a devout Catholic,how to cast her faith in literary creation.The text includes 4 chapters.The first chapter is "the formation of O'Connor's suffering consciousness".The formation of O'Connor's suffering consciousness is based on two aspects: First,the disintegration of the southern American mythology,the decline of the southern traditional society and the myth of the ladies brought heavy blow to the traditional southerners,in which O'Connor also experienced the loss of trauma.Second,O'Connor's personal experience and physical illness,O'Connor was unmarried lifelong,suffered from lupus erythematosus in25-year-old,which makes her particularly sensitive to the problem of suffering.Suffering for O'Connor is not only an objective fact,from the perspective of religious beliefs,she examines and accepts it.The second chapter is "O'Connor's southern world picture".In O'Connor's novels,the South is on the verge of falling apart,people lose their beliefs,fall into the usual existence and do not realize it,bear the sin and unaware of that,which the most typical images are rational supremacy of intellectuals,racists,pseudo-believers.By describing the survival of the various characters in the South,O'Connor reveals the universality of human's crucifixion.This crucifixion includes the suffering of the body and the spirit without conversion.The third chapter is "violence,suffering and salvation".The researchers argue that violence is "a choice for modern people to experience grace through endure physical pain,which is a unique picture of O'Connor's novels",to some extent this view is a misreading.O'Connor's work presents a world full of violence,where there are visible physical violence and invisible spiritual violence,through writing violence,O'Connor demonstrated the human is difficult to get rid of evil.Even so,the violence is objectively suspended to the people often survive,people be pushed into the suffering situation.In the rough state,they are aware of the absurd existence and expected to be saved.The fourth chapter is "suffering religious narrative".Be sensitive and immersive experience of the crucifixion constitute the unique narrative art of O'Connor's novels.The faith narrative perspective and the rational narrative perspective are opppsite and mutually complemental,highlighting the division of human integrity.The confrontation between natural space and urban space metaphor the alienation of human existence.The pursuit of the narrative structure,explained the suffering of the people in the pursuit of salvation.The conclusion summarizes the above and clarifies O'Connor's inspiration for the writing of the crucifixion.Explore the hidden possibilities of salvation in the distress,and the inspiration to contemporary people.