“The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner”, written by James Hogg, narrative contestation is a large part of the novel, as it is not one singular story, and rather a contest of stories played out in a contest of narrative written by both Robert Wringham and a fictitious Editor . The first section of the book, the ‘Editor’s narrative’, provides a seemingly objective historian’s editorial to the memoirs, whilst the second section of the book, the ‘Private Memoirs and Confessions of a
Scotland. His family was a devoted to both farming and religion. His father was an Elder at the church, so he always grew up in a religious background. In 1824 Hogg wrote the critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The novel provided satire on the Calvinist Doctrine of predestination. Predestination is the belief that God has since the start of time, pre ordained the saved. Basically, it is pre-decided who will go to Heaven and who will
Robert Wrhinghim in James Hogg's Novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Works Cited Not Included James Hogg's classic novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, portrays the fictional story of Robert Wringhim, a strong Calvinist who justifies murder by quickening the inevitable. Robert commits infamous acts of evil, believing that these murderous actions glorify God by annihilating sinners not chosen to be saved. I believe that a combination of
Religion in James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and J.G. Lockhart’s Adam Blair “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:1-2). Given the highly charged religious environment of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland, the above passage must have been discussed many times in Christian circles then. Some of the Reformed
This strings from his childhood of religious focus. With the constant reading of the bible, as well as other theological material, Hogg’s writings always have a religious aspect his books as well. This is most prominent in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, which discuses the Protestant time in America and in England. The novel shows this through the use of a devout brother in contrast to an unholy brother, as well as introducing aspects of sin and devil worship. Hogg’s schooling
Romanticism "In spite of its representation of potentially diabolical and satanic powers, its historical and geographic location and its satire on extreme Calvinism, James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner proves to be a novel that a dramatises a crisis of identity, a theme which is very much a Romantic concern." Discuss. Examination of Romantic texts provides us with only a limited and much debated degree of commonality. However despite the disparity of Romanticism (or
In the book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, the two characters Robert Wringhim and Gil-Martin are introduced early on in the Private Memoirs. Robert Wringhim is the second son of wealthy laird, George Colwan. He is rejected by his father after the firstborn son George Colwan Jr. He is adopted by Robert Wringhim Sr., the local minister. Within Wringhims mind it is evident how deeply hateful he is of his biological father and brother. The editor’s narrative gives a detailed
"The invaluable works of our elder writers re driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. The human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants.." William Wordsworth, Preface to The Lyrical Ballads, 1802. "..Phantasmagoric kind of fiction, whatever one may think of it, is not without merit: 'twas the inevitable result of revolutionary shocks throughout Europe
The late eighteen hundreds was a time of abundant scientific discoveries, medical advances, and drug outbreaks (Wolf). Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson united all three happenings into a single novel. Stevenson grasped the fear of the Victorian people and the unfamiliar concepts and findings of scientific advances to create the novel as a horror (Wolf). Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the first authors to truly explore and inquire in the concept of the duality of man and how it affects us
Background of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was published in 1886 and is one of the best known of Stevenson's novels. It concerns the way in which an individual is made up of contrary emotions and desires: some good and some evil. Through the curiosity of Utterson, a lawyer, we learn of the ugly and violent Mr Hyde and his odd connection
Death, Love and Liminality in the Fiction of Ali Smith The morbid marriage of love and death is not an original topic to postmodernist writing or to Scottish literature. Diverse forms of literature from Greek myth to Shakespearian tragedies have hosted stories of tragic love and romantic deaths, with varying nuances of darkness and romance. Nonetheless, this paper will attempt to establish a link between Ali Smith’s writing, postmodernist fiction and Scottish fantasy, while looking at the topic