【正文】 e and horrific atmosphere. A dialogue in A Circle in The Fire demonstrates her blak humor vividly, “She don?t own them woods”, and Hollis said, “she does too”, and that there little one he said, “Man, Gawd owns them woods and her too,” and that there one with the glassess said, “I reckon she owns the sky over this place too”, and that therre littlest one says, “Owns the sky and can?t no airplane go over here without she says so”, and then the big one says. (186) The above shows the O?Connor?s humor and reflect the dislike of the boys towards Mrs Cope, who claims her property constantly.,foreshadowing the later tragedy of Mrs Cope ?s forests and the fire set by the boys. O?Connor decipts the everyday life of ordinary people in the South, whose life is often suddenly face with disaster. In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, the tone of the first part is humorous and ic, however at the second part, the families sudderly encountered three escaped prisioners and were shot cruelly. O?Connor?s plot is a bination of edy and tragdey, in which the characters meet with sudden catastrope. The author remarks, “to know oneself, is to konw one?s region, it is also, paradoxically, a form of exile from that world”(O?Connor, Mystery and Manners, 35). As we can see in O?Connor?s stories, the humorous tone desplays more than that of horror thus the sudden reverse of characters? fate will reveals the depth of mankind truely snd precisely which also shocks the readers profoundly, and that is what the auhtor?s black edy want to achieve. II. Grotesque Figures The Grotesque in Art and Literature written by German critic Wolfgang Kayser in 1957 is an important book to analysis the grotesque in an aesthetic way. Later on, Thomos puts forward the ment, Where previous ages relegated it to the cruder species of the ic, the present B. A. Thesis of Shandong University of Finance and Economics 10 tendency is to view the grotesque as a fundamentally ambivalent thing, as a violent clash of opposites, and hence, in some of its forms at least, as an approprite expression of the problematical nature of exiatence. (Thomos 11) Good Country People demonstrate the grotesque characteriization vividly. Joy hulga, a arrogant, cold, strange girl, ages thirtytwo and has a . while dresses in a sixyear old skirt. She believes nihilism so that she changes her name from Joy to Hulga to create her rebirth which endows her a sense of superiority in spirit and a denial of deformity in physic. She is the only child of the family , highly intelligent in science and philosophy, with one wooden leg she shuts others outside her world. The oxymoronic bination imply her grotesqueness. The real wound of losing one of the legs makes her bee more and more grotesque. She believes in nothing and only wants to explain everything from a scientific point. Subject to her physical paralysis, she thought the uglier name,Hulga, fits her better。 violence and death is the eternal motif in O?Connor?s fictions. She once said that a good story should conprise a dramatic event and involves a particular person, thus “the qualities least indispensible in his personality” (Fitzgerald 114) will be revealed in such。t go anywhere。 extraordinary portrait of images and fantastic plot that every story has a stereotyped ending. The great B. A. Thesis of Shandong University of Finance and Economics 5 influence of Gothic genre makes scholars realize that “Gothic novels have exerted significant influence on the literature of later generations and on every European literature. They have exerted great effect on the American literature, Hawtho rn and Allen Poe in particular” (Zhao 283). In the Romantic period, Zastrozzi (1810) by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein are publiclyknown Gothic novels. Charlotte Bront235。Connor (19251964) was born in the southern city of Savannah, Geia. Both of her parents were from families prominent in Geia?s Catholic Church. The year she was born, her father developed a rare disease called lupus and he died of the disease in 1941. By that time the family was living in a small southern town of Milledgeville, Geia, in a house owned by Flannery39。該論文分析奧康納短篇小說(shuō)獨(dú)特的哥特藝術(shù)，解讀她筆下的 畸人形象，陰郁的南方背景，令人恐懼的故事情節(jié)，前面了解二戰(zhàn)后美國(guó)南方崩潰的精神世界。奧康納是美國(guó)南方文學(xué)中頗具影響力的女作家。 日期填寫(xiě)定稿日期 5月 1 日 。對(duì)本文的研究做出重要貢獻(xiàn)的個(gè)人和集體，均已在論文中作了明確的說(shuō)明并表示了謝意。除文中已經(jīng)注明引用的內(nèi)容外，本論文不含任何其他個(gè)人或集體已經(jīng)發(fā)表或撰寫(xiě)過(guò)的研究成果。 教師學(xué)生都要 手寫(xiě)簽名 學(xué)位論文作者簽名： 年 月 日 xxxx大學(xué) 關(guān)于論文使用授權(quán)的說(shuō)明 本人完全了解 山東財(cái)經(jīng)大學(xué) 有關(guān)保留、使用學(xué)士學(xué)位論文的規(guī)定，即： 學(xué)校有權(quán)保留、送交論文的復(fù)印件，允許論文被查閱，學(xué)?？梢怨颊撐牡娜炕虿糠謨?nèi)容，可以采用影印或其他復(fù)制手段保存論文。 gothic art B. A. Thesis of Shandong University of Finance and Economics iv 摘要 論佛蘭納里 ? 奧康納短篇小說(shuō)的哥特藝術(shù) xxxxxxxxxx 佛蘭納里她的作品是冷酷無(wú)情的，充斥著暴力和死亡，旨在喚醒人們的宗教意識(shí)和對(duì)現(xiàn)實(shí)社會(huì)的認(rèn)識(shí)，暴力死亡和宗教是奧康納小說(shuō)的兩大特點(diǎn)。 注意各級(jí)標(biāo)題大小寫(xiě)，確保目錄中的標(biāo)題、頁(yè)碼與正文中的標(biāo)題、頁(yè)碼保持對(duì)應(yīng) B. A. Thesis of Shandong University of Finance and Economics 1 Introduction Flannery O39。 atmosphere of mystery and suspense that arouses fear and terror。 holding a scornful,cold attitude towards the surroundings and acting like a rude strangeer in the family, she gets more disgust rather than sympathy from readers. There is always a sharp conflict between the spirit and the body for the figures in O?Connor?s short stories. In her story, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, a travelling workman with only one arm es to a farm who claims to be more concerned with the things in its spirit part than its object part. Hence, The woman who owns the farm offers to let him marry her deaf daughter, considering the good quality may enable him to take care of her daughter. Not until when the mother gives him the farm, her car, and seventeen dollars for the wedding trip did the workman finally agrees. He says, Lady, a man is divided into two parts, body and spirit. . . The body, lady, is like a house: it don3