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A Violent Illumination Of Salvation
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Flannery O'Connor uses violence to return characters to reality and prepare them
to accept their moment of grace. The New Encyclopedia Britannica defines grace
as the "spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine or the divine influence
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... . . . her heros are willful
characters who must be humbled in learning that the will of God must prevail"
(Master-pieces 497).
O'Connor portrays two varieties of sinners who possess either excessive pride or
aggressive evil traits. The price of redemption is high. O'Connor violently
shocks her characters, illuminates their shortcomings, and prepares them for
redemption as seen in: "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Revelation," "The River,"
and "The Lame Shall Enter First."
Walters reasons, "The instruction of pride through lessons of humility is, in
each story, the means by which the soul is prepared for its necessary
illumination by ... |
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