Resentment: A New Comment On Flannery O'Connor's Fictions

"Resentment" is a core concept in Flannery O'Connor's novels. In her novels, almost all the characters and the plot can be summarized into the "resentment". The spite is not just a psychological phenomenon, but also a representation of modern-ethics. Both of them constitute as the coin's two sides of her "resentment" style. This paper provides specific analysis on her resentment style, from sociological analysis, verbal analysis and analysis of religious philosophy.Chapter 1 discusses the relationship between ethics and modern resentment and the occurrence of resentment in O'Connor's novel. Scheler note that resentment is the core of the spirit for capitalism and modern ethical, but the modern ethics which built up based on the resentment has inevitable limitations, which cause the source of modern spiritual crisis. O'Connor's Southerners and Catholic identity makes her held a negative attitude towards on the modernization process of the south United States, especially toward ethics, and resentment is her manifestations.Chapter 2 analyzes the light of the specific works of O'Connor on the U.S. Southern resentment of the process of modernization thinking, I focus on historical levels of analysis. "Sheep" children and "wolf" children represents adult world of this group the collective resentment, the first section outlines the spiritual chaotic of the south world; section II presents the social class conflict after the hierarchy breaks, reviews the perspective of living in the South and the old farm value of production relations; sectionâ…¢, criticizes the moral hypocrisy of "love", which is one of the core modern ethics of the perspective of O'Connor; the fourth section shows the conflict between tradition and modernity by analysis the old elderly Spite of psychological in South.Chapter 3 focuses on the end of resentment and way out, that is, crime and punishment issues. I represented focus on the religious dimension. This chapter tries to find out the reason of frequent religious violence, resentment, and gives O'Connor's attitude on the root causes of people's views of free will and redemption.