 | Cleanth Brooks - 1963 - 160 Seiten
...and his fatalism is a kind of perversion of Calvinist determinism. On his way to murder Joanna, "he believed with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe." But so "fated" is his act of murder that he keeps saying to himself "I had... | |
 | Panthea Reid Broughton - 1999 - 252 Seiten
...power, tries to construe his murder of Joanna as determined by God's will. Faulkner writes that Joe "believed with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe" (LA, 264). With Faulkner such a belief, whether or not it carries with it... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - 1989 - 518 Seiten
...and his fatalism is a kind of perversion of Calvinist determinism.8 On his way to murder Joanna, "he believed with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe" (p. 244). But so "fated" is his act of murder that he keeps saying to himself... | |
 | Henry Claridge - 1999 - 716 Seiten
...and refers to in passing as 'this quiet contradiction'. Joe Christmas provides its illustration: he believed with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe.42 Free-will means responsibility. If we are free, we are responsible for our... | |
 | John P. Anderson - 2002 - 192 Seiten
...enters to find her praying for his soul. He refuses to kneel and believes that he must kill her: '. . . he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe. He was saying to himself / had to do it already in the past tense; / had to... | |
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he believed with calm paradox that he was the volitionless servant of the fatality in which he believed that he did not believe. 