An Analysis Of Women's Lost And Returned Souls By Flannery O Connor
Women 's Lost and Returned Souls
—— An Analysis of Women 's Displacement and Epiphany in O 'Connor 's Works Yuan LinLin
April 20, 2013
Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing certain female characters in Flannery O’Connor’s works from the perspective of feminism. By combining the displacement theory in psychology and the Christian existentialism, it illustrates specific changes and reconstructions realized by female characters before and after the occurrence of displacement as well as the impact on their spiritual world by violence and male intruders. The paper also discusses old Southern ideas and the constraints thrown by the patriarchal society, the estrangement of female characters’ struggling environment and the …show more content…
Nevertheless, their minds have been reshaped by male enforcement leading to blindness and bigotry. In this sense, by pretending themselves as thoughtful and far-sighted “iron hand” in the neighborhood, women’s self-identity is nowhere to find. In particular, O 'Connor deliberately gives no names to the female characters in A Good Man Is Hard to Find except June Star the granddaughter, which expressed her implication towards the loss of certain female identity on its literal level leaving the real voice aside. Besides, the desire for the traditional lady outlook, women vex themselves with those meaningless appearance and outward affiliations. For instance, the Grandmother’s preparation before the trip in A Good Man Is Hard to Find detailed that …show more content…
The epiphany is mainly occurred through actions of displacement and violence. The sudden strike leads to the sudden consciousness. The core lying in the violent approaches can be explained by her religious experience and all the means she takes are indispensable for women to reach their final destination. In discussion of women’s changes, O’Connor can give a full play of her writing ambition and solve the problems that seem unsolvable.
4.1 Indifference of Southern Tradition
The peculiar religious conception O’Connor holds alienates her from most Southern writers who have a Southern complex and focus more on its historical significance. Although she also feeds on this land as her writing motivation, she’s more willing to alleviate the current problems by rejecting the Utopian ideology of moral progress and absorbing the source from the God. Women under her works, are liberated from the fatuous mind and restored with a new perception which goes against the Southern tradition. The scene Mrs. Turpin pictures in Revelation is an illustration of indifference towards the Southern
—— An Analysis of Women 's Displacement and Epiphany in O 'Connor 's Works Yuan LinLin
April 20, 2013
Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing certain female characters in Flannery O’Connor’s works from the perspective of feminism. By combining the displacement theory in psychology and the Christian existentialism, it illustrates specific changes and reconstructions realized by female characters before and after the occurrence of displacement as well as the impact on their spiritual world by violence and male intruders. The paper also discusses old Southern ideas and the constraints thrown by the patriarchal society, the estrangement of female characters’ struggling environment and the …show more content…
Nevertheless, their minds have been reshaped by male enforcement leading to blindness and bigotry. In this sense, by pretending themselves as thoughtful and far-sighted “iron hand” in the neighborhood, women’s self-identity is nowhere to find. In particular, O 'Connor deliberately gives no names to the female characters in A Good Man Is Hard to Find except June Star the granddaughter, which expressed her implication towards the loss of certain female identity on its literal level leaving the real voice aside. Besides, the desire for the traditional lady outlook, women vex themselves with those meaningless appearance and outward affiliations. For instance, the Grandmother’s preparation before the trip in A Good Man Is Hard to Find detailed that …show more content…
The epiphany is mainly occurred through actions of displacement and violence. The sudden strike leads to the sudden consciousness. The core lying in the violent approaches can be explained by her religious experience and all the means she takes are indispensable for women to reach their final destination. In discussion of women’s changes, O’Connor can give a full play of her writing ambition and solve the problems that seem unsolvable.
4.1 Indifference of Southern Tradition
The peculiar religious conception O’Connor holds alienates her from most Southern writers who have a Southern complex and focus more on its historical significance. Although she also feeds on this land as her writing motivation, she’s more willing to alleviate the current problems by rejecting the Utopian ideology of moral progress and absorbing the source from the God. Women under her works, are liberated from the fatuous mind and restored with a new perception which goes against the Southern tradition. The scene Mrs. Turpin pictures in Revelation is an illustration of indifference towards the Southern