Portrait of spirituality, morality, and redemption in wise blood Dr. Begum B. Rasheeda HoD & Assistant Professor, Department of English & Foreign Languages, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India Online published on 24 April, 2018. Abstract Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's, a primary novel, a combination of tragedy and comedy version and the Hazel Motes, the protagonist, who is referred as Haze, lost his faith when he was in the army and becomes against the God. He moves from his native place Eastrod, Tennessee, which is in Atlanta, to teach the church of truth without Jesus Christ crucified. He has changed his costume by wearing bright blue suit and black hat. He comes across a religion-faker, called Onnie Jay Holy, who dressed himself as Haze and started preaching. By seeing this Haze murders the false prophet. Haze also met Asa Hawks, a false prophet and a fake blind man who pretends to have blinded with lime to defend his faith in Redemption and his daughter, who is fond of Haze and wants to seduce her. Haze buys a car after sometime it gives trouble and he meets Sabbath Lily, an illegitimate child, who wants to join in his church to go heaven. At the end Haze was left with blindness and was caught by the policeman on the road and met the death. Top Keywords Belief, Morality, Preach, Redemption, Spirituality. Top |