Morbid Nature of Mankind
Flannery O’Connor focuses on the idea that as humans we treat ourselves and each other with such disregard and disrespect; religion isn’t actually a way of life, but rather a way to cope with the morbid nature of mankind. O’Connor focuses her writing in the Southern gothic genre which includes deeply flawed and disturbed characters, estranged settings and sinister events. In O’Connor’s novel, Wise Blood, the protagonist Hazel Motes has his heart set on escaping his religious destiny regardless of who is hurt in the process as he states in chapter 1: “I’m going to do some things I have never done before.” He rejects the idea of religion and is disgusted by the world that surrounds him and claims to believe in nothing in order to justify his sins that aren’t considered sins since there is no such thing as religion or a god which he continuously preaches: “The truth don’t matter to you. If Jesus had redeemed you, what difference would it make to you? You wouldn’t do nothing about it. Your faces wouldn’t move, neither this way nor that, and if it was …show more content…
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