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Dystopia
Discussion on Perspectives of Violence Based on Three Readings
Violence and tragedy are a fact of life that the human condition has yet to rid itself off. Misfortune can come from many sources. It can come from within a person, from within a family, or from within a community. It is the way people explain and come to terms with such events that define the life that persists afterwards. In the three stories selected, violence is portrayed in each. However, the source of the violence is attributed to different causes. It is a natural human response to try to make sense of tragic events and people do this in different ways. In this analysis, three stories will be used to compare and contrast how some individuals cope, or fail to cope, with violence or misfortune. Each story provides a different perspective on this issue.
Flannery O'Conner
Flannery O'Conner was a controversial figure in her contemporary period. She perplexed and alienated some of her readers by being perceived as un-Christina or even anti-Christian in her philosophy. She believed in a spiritual world however she did not believe in free will, at least not in the common notion. Instead she believed that there were several wills that could be chosen from. However, she claims to be a devote Christian and part of the mystery that lies in her writings deals with the "mysteries" involved with Christ. In the Wise Blood, the main character is a violent and malevolent figure who denies Christ's existence. Therefore, from O'Conner's...
His utopia dealt with southern style living. From a letter to his mother, Helen Pancake, that Pancake wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing:
"I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave."
His stories cover a lot of the wreckage that was left behind when the United States started becoming a more industrialized nation. Pancake's stories and their characters, though from the nineteen-seventies, felt both immediately recognizable and pertinent to the present moment; set mostly in the coal country of West Virginia, "The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake" features a cast of hardscrabble laborers whose lives are circumscribed by failing farms, diminishing economic prospects, and the environmental blight caused by the harvesting of fossil fuels (Michaud, 2014). Therefore, the contrast between utopia and dytopia in Pancake's writings deals with this industrial transformation. One of the…
Works Cited
Michaud, J. (2014, February 18). UNEARTHING BREECE D'J PANCAKE. Retrieved from The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/02/the-stories-of-breece-dj-pancake.html
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