声明
Acknowledgements
Abstract
摘要
Contents
Chapter Ⅰ Introduction
1.1 Introduction to Flannery O’Connor
1.2 Literature Review and significance of Wise Blood
1.3 Thesis Statement
Chapter Ⅱ Grace in Old Testament
Chapter Ⅲ Religious Tradition in American South
3.1 Flannery O’Connor’s Firm Belief in Catholicism
3.2 The Incarnation of Religion in Flannery O’Connor’s Works
3.3 Religious Crisis in American South
Chapter Ⅳ Violence in Reality and in Fiction
4.1 Violence as an Approach to Break the Dilemma of Decaying Ethics
4.1.1 Dilemma of Decaying Ethics and Its Root Reasons
4.1.2 Solution to Break the Dilemma of Decaying Ethics
4.2 Reasons for Southerners’ Resort to Violence
4.3 Embodiment of Violence in Wise Blood
4.3.1 Dismemberment of Women
4.3.2 The Abandoned Children
4.3.3 Policemen’s Cruelty
4.3.4 The Escalation of Violence
4.4 Violence in Gothic Tradition
4.4.1 Gothic style as the Reflection of Violence
4.4.2 Manifestation of Gothic Style in Wise Blood
Chapter Ⅴ Grace Behind Violence
5.1 The Protagonist’s Spiritual Changing Process
5.1.1 Betrayal to Religion
5.1.2 Conversion to Religion
5.2 Reasons for the Protagonist’s Spiritual Changes and Solution to Convert
5.2.1 Reasons That Caused the Protagonist’s spiritual changes
5.2.2 Violence as an Approach Hazel Adopted to convert
5.3 Grace Befalling the Protagonist
Chapter Ⅵ Conclusion
References