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- Title: Civility in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 252 KB
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Civility In C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien As the final action in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is about to occur, the vicious murderer, the Misfit, says of Christ's rising from the dead: "... if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can--by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness ..." At the very end of the story, he says, "It's no real pleasure in life." (1) O'Connor places into the mouth of her character a concept that flows from her conviction that if there is no God, then all is possible and permitted to the autonomous man, an idea that Dostoevsky has characters in various works say in one form or another. The Misfit's last remark undercuts the notion of any possible joy from this "meanness," this incivility. On the contrary, there is no joy, no pleasure, in vice.
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