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DISCUSSION AND RESULTS-
Wise Blood was O'Connor's first novel. Originally, the first chapter was a short story that was part of O'Connor's master's thesis for a writing workshop sponsored by the University of Iowa. The beautiful and episodic structure of the novel suggests that it was a collection of short stories and vignettes that were eventually transformed into linear form or a finished novel. Four chapters were published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review in 1948 and 1949, respectively. Wise Blood, published in its entirety by Harcourt Brace, debuted in May 1952.
Set in Taulkinham, the main character of Wise Blood is Hazel Motes, an isolated and haunted young man who throughout the novel tries to lose/deny his passion for Christian redemption and Jesus Christ. Hazel is Christ-influenced as opposed to Christ-centered. His name, an allegory of his own spiritual blindness, is itself a biblical allegory, taken from the teachings of Jesus in Matthew 7:3 and Luke 6:41. Like many of O'Connor's characters, he fell victim to radical Southern Calvinism—more or less a misunderstanding.
Hazel's early views on salvation, sin, redemption, etc. were based on the teachings of her evangelical grandfather.
Like many others, he was taught that Jesus Christ died for the sins of mankind, and therefore he was taught to take vengeance. Sinners are at the mercy of an angry God, and salvation is essentially a form of punishment. Hazel felt destined to become a minister like her grandfather. Hazel concludes that the only way to avoid such a fate and save her soul is to not have one. His wartime experience of serving in the military for several years during World War II reinforces his nihilism. He returns from war to find his town in ruins and family members dead or missing.
Her faith shattered, Hazel decided to start a new church with a new Jesus/Gospel. "The only way to the truth is disbelief," he insists. As a result, he travels to Taulkinham and discovers a "Christless Church" that preaches humanitarian self-reliance in contrast to God, who says, "The deaf cannot hear, the blind cannot see, the lame cannot walk, the dumb cannot walk." constitutes Don't talk and the dead will stay." Hazel, opposed to the new priest, sets out to save people from salvation. Although she hates preachers in her heart and does not want to be recognized as one - her bright blue and his 'spy suit and black hat suggest otherwise. Throughout the novel, he encounters a strange group of villains in Taulkinham who challenge his new godless/atheist faith. All the characters in Wise Blood are paradoxical. Linda Rohrer Page has her In the article "White Trash, Low Class, and No Class at All: Flannery's Perverted Portraits of the Phallic Force in O'Connor's Wise Blood," he comments that most of O'Connor's characters represent "the front of perfection. They seem like walking paradoxes."
Hazel spends her first night on the town with a random prostitute, Mrs. Leora Watts. He then meets Hoover Shoats aka Onnie Jay Holly, who immediately adapts his new gospel.
Shoats wants to use it as a money-making scheme where new followers have to pay a dollar to join a new church. Shoats offers to join forces, but Hazel refuses. Shoats hires a man, the Prophet, who not only dresses like Hazel, but looks a lot like Hazel.
Through its paradoxical characters, Wise Blood explores a number of common themes. O'Connor paints a scene of sin, judgment, and guilt through his violent, depraved, and horrific imagery. With its comedic and grotesque elements, it can clearly be read as a grotesque comedy. Philosophically, opposing views of reality are presented, and it is up to the reader to resolve the conflicts. As a social/historical text, Wise Blood represents a turbulent time in the post-World War II South, when there was great tension between rural and cosmopolitan populations, as well as benefiting from big-city marketing.
the tent-evangelist describes the rise of hidden preachers. Through a religious lens, Wise Blood is a strange tale of redemption and heresy.
It explores the consequences of denying the existence of the soul with a desperate measure. O'Connor's characters are often victims of spiritual confusion and are irreligious by nature. The psychological and spiritual crisis that created the state of grotesqueness exhibited by Hazel Motes and many others is usually explained by O'Connor. O'Connor creates a fictional world in which her characters truly, and sometimes pretend, search for faith. "O'Connor's characters in Wise Blood reveal important truths about themselves and others despite their tendency to embark on perilous journeys in search of the opposite of reality, demonstrating a visionary ability (Page)." O'Connor's spiritual world was a reflection of the spiritual world, and he felt at times that he was becoming increasingly worldly and needed a new flow of faith.