Ironizing Nihilism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away
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This research on the two novels,Wise Blood(1952) and The Violent
Bear It Away(1960) examines how O'Connor ironically exposes the
twentieth-century nihilistic attitude in the face of growing materialism.
The heroes of the two novels reject the principles of Christianity in the
earlier parts of the novel, but they finally end up embracing faith in God.
The heroes in the novels who rebel against the dogmatic notions of
religion in the earlier part of novels finally realize and surrender to the
religion.O'Connor ironizes the twentieth–century nihilism and posits
belief in God.