The Theme Of Redemption In Flannery O Connor's Good Country People

In Flannery O’Connor’s Good Country People, a symbolic terrain of peculiar, deviant mis fits, and sometimes plain out good country people are troubled with dysfunctional family tribulations in which these same characters convey their own self-conflicting dilemmas. A direct link to the Gospels can be found in this text, in terms of dealing with redemption and salvation, ,and a constant battle between faith and intellect. The physical and bodily impairments the characters suffer from, specifically Joy, are a direct personification of the very same character’s lack of heart and benevolence. These very same flaws can be evidently found in the character’s beliefs and emotional behaviors, such as through either different ideologies, grounds of intimacy, …show more content…
This life of purely communicating with people in academic and cognitive manner, can be traced to her absolute negation of Christianity and religion. It is highly imperative that the reader must keep the concept of redemption in mind as reading the text, because it encapsulates the text’s underlying self conviction of Hulga being heavenly saved through subconscious acts of salvation. It is arguably true that there is a direct linkage to the Gospel in this text, in terms of behaviors and actions, that explain the author’s intense urgency to have her characters finally be redeemed through acts of violence and what seems to be possible sexual assault scenes. It is of no wonder that Hulga is trifled with the devoted “tall gaunt hatless” Christian bible salesman, who is constantly categorizing Mrs. Hopewell as a “good woman.” To Hulga, this newly witty bible salesman is nothing more than just another devoted Christian blinded by his radical ways and ideologies. She emasculates the character by initially following her intellect, as she has always done before with other individuals. Except in this case, for the first time in what seemed to be a long going streak of no intimate affection, Hulga felt something, just enough for the two of them to continue their conversation in a two-story barn. A barn, the most common ideal cliche location for a couple of innocent youngsters to prolong in sexaul activity or take someone’s sacred virginity, in a dominant southern community of white protestants. Only they are able to understand the vicinity of taking a physically impaired atheist’s wooden leg off to symbolize affectual feelings of intimacy and heavenly love. The couple then enters a what seems to be a rape type scene by all proportions. Symptoms of the boy’s look of “admiration” and “irritated” urgency