James Hogg/Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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8
ABSTRACT:
An 8 page analysis of the nineteenth century novel by James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. In this novel, the protagonist, Robert, embarks on a campaign of murder that is intended to 'do God's work' by relieving the planet of some of the wicked. Hogg takes the reader inside Robert's mind as Hogg demonstrates just how destructive such extreme belief in one's own righteousness can be. Robert is so torn apart by the implications of his Calvinist upbringing that his psyche literally splinters and he communes with a copy of himself that goes by the name of 'Gil-Martin'‹it is an evil copy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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