The Wise Blood of Passion
“Wise Blood” is a novel written by Flannery O’Connor, is about a man named Haze, who fought in World War 2, lost everyone in his family, and became a passionate atheist. He decides to go into the city of Taulkinham, where he wants to start anew. Throughout his time there, he runs into interactions with people, and ends up finding a church that's about Atheists, and delivers a speech about what he believes, making people want him as a preacher. He ends up killing, and harming others.
In the novel, he begins to appreciate items that are broken down, and not seeming like it's useful, such as the car he buys for 40 dollars. He appreciates it and uses it not only as a home but for everything in his life. He begins to try to hide his identity so he can cover up what he did during the war. As he continues his life he ends up becoming a “new jesus” for the atheists, however people begin to impersonate him, and he begins to be scared of this doppelganger. He begins trying to bring …show more content…
This story shows what it was like for someone who doesn’t believe in christ and decides to bring about a new form of religion. This brings up another idea as this book didn’t cover, such as the fact that why would Hazel begin to leave and instead blind himself, and harm himself, using rocks and glass in his shoes and covering himself with barbwire. Is it for his religion or for him to find peace within himself, however he did it because of what has occurred to everything in his life. He begins to find reasoning from all the suffering he caused and wants to end it but not turn to christ as others told him he should. This brings up a type of reference to “Oedipus Rex” as he was given a fate that would occur to him from a blind prophet (Asa Hawks) and how Oedipus blinds himself similar to how Hazel blinds himself, and tries to exile himself as Oedipus has done as
“Wise Blood” is a novel written by Flannery O’Connor, is about a man named Haze, who fought in World War 2, lost everyone in his family, and became a passionate atheist. He decides to go into the city of Taulkinham, where he wants to start anew. Throughout his time there, he runs into interactions with people, and ends up finding a church that's about Atheists, and delivers a speech about what he believes, making people want him as a preacher. He ends up killing, and harming others.
In the novel, he begins to appreciate items that are broken down, and not seeming like it's useful, such as the car he buys for 40 dollars. He appreciates it and uses it not only as a home but for everything in his life. He begins to try to hide his identity so he can cover up what he did during the war. As he continues his life he ends up becoming a “new jesus” for the atheists, however people begin to impersonate him, and he begins to be scared of this doppelganger. He begins trying to bring …show more content…
This story shows what it was like for someone who doesn’t believe in christ and decides to bring about a new form of religion. This brings up another idea as this book didn’t cover, such as the fact that why would Hazel begin to leave and instead blind himself, and harm himself, using rocks and glass in his shoes and covering himself with barbwire. Is it for his religion or for him to find peace within himself, however he did it because of what has occurred to everything in his life. He begins to find reasoning from all the suffering he caused and wants to end it but not turn to christ as others told him he should. This brings up a type of reference to “Oedipus Rex” as he was given a fate that would occur to him from a blind prophet (Asa Hawks) and how Oedipus blinds himself similar to how Hazel blinds himself, and tries to exile himself as Oedipus has done as