National Taiwan UniversityTsai, Hsiu-chihHsiu-chihTsai2006-12-192018-05-292006-12-192018-05-292004-06http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/2006121215550463This paper attempts to explicate the function of violence & its relation to the possible epiphany & transformation trajectory in Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” I would first remodel the Greimassian semiotic method to analyze the expressions & functions of violence in the narrative, especially, in the concepts, behaviors & responses of the two main characters—the grandmother & The Misfit. I would argue that, in this story, the function of violence helps build up a discrete trajectory of passion modes & delineate a possible mental transformation of the two main characters. Secondly, the grandmother’s possible transformation process after the car accident & the following violent massacre of the Bailey family will be discussed. Finally, I would take the violent performance in O’Connor’s story as a strategic application, which O’Connor adopts to help reveal the grandmother’s & the Misfit’s concepts constructed loosely upon a layer of culturally set religious & secular beliefs. This culturally embedded reality (which mistakes manners as morals & faith) incurs the very destruction of its groundwork, dilutes the violence resulted from social maladjustment, & furthermore, diminishes the shock behind the downfall of a family.本文將探討歐康諾短篇小說〈好人難尋〉中，暴力的功能與暴力和故事最 終可能發生的突然醒悟的關係。本文將透過對葛萊瑪符號學模組的改寫，對歐 康諾故事中的敘事結構進行分析，探討歐康諾敘事裡的種種暴力行為、語言表 現、以及其功能運用，特別是故事中兩位主要人物──祖母和「不適者」── 對於暴力的觀念、行為與回應態度。其次，本文將探討祖母在車禍後與全家遭 滅門殺害時，可能面臨的認知與情感態度的轉換。最後，將指出歐康諾運用暴 力的出現做為突顯祖母和「不適者」這兩位主要人物背後所呈現的現實，並探 討宗教與文化如何形塑出人物的認知，以及在敘事中，歐康諾如何藉由人物的 行為與觀點堆疊出暴力結果，但是也同時在暴力殺戮終顯時，因而削減暴力敘 事的驚駭。application/pdf427328 bytesapplication/pdfzh-TWFlannery O’Connor“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” A. J. Greimassemioticsnarrativetransformation trajectoryviolence歐康諾〈好人難尋〉葛萊瑪符號學敘事轉換歷程暴力[SDGs]SDG16journal articlehttp://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/2006121215550463/1/11600181446451739096177.pdf