Religious Imagery in Flannery OConnors The Life You Save May Be Your

Religious Imagery in Flannery OConnors The bearing You Save May Be Your OwnThe religious imagery in Flannery OConnors The Life You Save May Be Your Own gives the story a misanthropical undertone along with a healthy dose of irony. OConnor uses allusions to Jesus and Christianity to view the hypocrisies of the religion and its adherents. Her character Tom T. Shiftlet is portrayed paradoxically as some(prenominal) the embodiment of Christ and an immoral, utterly selfish miscreant. By presenting these polarities side by side within one persona, OConnor shows the dichotomies between so-called Christian moral philosophy and the reality of the Church.During his first encounter with the Lucynell Craters, Mr. Shiflet appears to be a harmless, generous wanderer. As he approaches the Crater?s home he ?swung ...