TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT i
ABSTRACT iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS v
1. INTRODUCTION
1 1.1
Background of the Study 1
1.2 Problem of the Study
3 1.3
Objective and Significance of the Study 4
1.4 Scope of the Study
4 1.5
Method of the Research 4
1.6 Review of Related Literature
5
2. A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF GROTESQUE
7 2.1 Grotesque
7 2.2 Grotesque Characteristics
9 2.3 Southern Grotesque
14 2.4 The Relation between Author and Grotesque
16
3. THE ANALYSIS OF THE GROTESQUE
CHARACTERISTICS IN O’CONNOR’S WISE BLOOD 20
3.1 Monster 20
3.2 Violence 23
3.3 Absurd 25
3.4 Mystery 27
3.5 Comic 31
3.6 Symbol 37
3.7 Irony 40
4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
42 4.1 Conclusion 42
4.2 Suggestion 43
BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDICES
The Author’s Biography and Her Works The Summary of Wise Blood
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Abstract
Literature must be always interesting; it must have a structure and an aesthetic purpose, a
total coherence and effect, and it must stand in recognizable relation to life Rene Wellek, 1956:
212. Literature must give the readers pleasure and knowledge, and can add their intellectual. In literature, we can find three genres. One of the literary genre, prose, is often classified into some
other forms, such as novel, romance, short story, and biography.
The novel, as Richard Taylor says in his book Understanding the Element of Litarature
1981: 46, is the modern or living form of narrative fiction which often shares constructional features, subject matter and themes derived from the epic, romance, allegory and satire, it
remains distinctively separates from them. One sub-form of novel, gothic is very popular from the 1760s onwards until the 1820s. Gothic has had a considerable influence on fiction since still
apparent in the 1990s and is of much importance in the evolution of the ghost story and the horror story. Most Gothic novels are prose forms that contain horror stories or tales of mystery,
intended to chill the spine and curdle the blood. As a subgenre of Gothic style, Southern Gothic could be considered as a style of writing
practiced by many writers of the American South whose stories set in that region are characterized by grotesque, macabre, or fantastic incidents http:en
wikipedia.orgwikiSouthern_Gothic. Like its parent genre, it relies on supernatural, ironic, or unusual events to guide the plot
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1. INTRODUCTION
