Religious Problems in Callaghan's Works from the Biblical Archetypal Image--A Case Study of Two Fishermen

Haolin Zhang

《International Journal of Social Science and Education Research》 4卷8期 (2021/08) Pp. 457-460

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202108_4(8).0070

摘要

Morley Callaghan wrote a series of short stories in 1930s that reflected the social and religious conditions of The Dirty Thirties in Canada. One of his masterpieces, Two Fishermen, is based on the Bible as the narrative archetype, and tells the story of the fleeting friendship between a reporter and a hangman forged through fishing in an uncivilized town. Smith's identity of the law enforcer and the symbol of the fish God gives the story an obvious religious significance, and his recruitment of believer-suffering of betrayal-exit with haste obtained an abstracted connotation and an extended denotation which indicate the lack of traditional Christian doctrines such as justice, tolerance and order at that time. This paper will be based on the Northrop Frye's theory of myth archetype criticism to analyze the relinquishment of power of the Christ under the erosion of social forces.

關鍵字

Morley Callaghan ； Two fishermen ； Biblical archetype

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