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- Title: Corruption and Innocence in Robert Penn Warren's Fiction (Critical Evaluation of "the Flood" and "All the King's Men")
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 209 KB
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AN EPISODE IN Robert Penn Warren's novel Flood is emblematic of his understanding of human guilt and innocence. The deputy warden is giving a tour of Fiddlersburg prison, and he recounts how one of the sharpshooters in the prison tower had cost him a guard. One day a trustee who was tending the prison garden attacked and killed a guard with his sickle, and the sharpshooter in the tower never fired on the prisoner. When confronted, the sharpshooter said he was afraid of hitting an innocent man. The deputy warden concludes the story, "'Jesus Christ,' I said, 'a innocent man! There ain't no innocent man!'" (1) There are no innocent men in the sense of "guiltless" in Robert Penn Warren's world. There may be innocent men in the sense of "ignorant" or "naive," but generally this innocence is a tack taken to avoid overt responsibility for actions or outcomes one is somehow involved in. In the Modern Library introduction to All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren stated that Bogan Murdock, the dark but attractive presence around which the action swirls in At Heaven's Gate, was a prototype for Willie Stark, central figure in All the King's Men. (2) Both novels revolve around the themes of power and corruption. In All the King's Men, Willie Stark's story is one of the rise and fall of a politician; in At Heaven's Gate, we learn of the fall and recovery of the financier Bogan Murdock.
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