LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 21:7 July 2021
ISSN 1930-2940

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Biblical Allusions to the Passion of Christ in
Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case”

Song (Joseph) Cho, Doctor of Intercultural Studies (DIS)

In Death Comes for the Archbishop, Latour reflects on the Passion of Christ as he suffers from thirst: “Of all our Lord’s physical sufferings, only one, ‘I thirst,’ rose to His lips. Empowered by long training, the young priest blotted himself out of his own consciousness and meditated upon the anguish of his Lord. The Passion of Jesus became for him the only reality; the need of his own body was but a part of that conception” (19). In view of this, could there perhaps be echoes of the Passion of Christ in Cather’s other works such as her short story “Paul’s Case”? After being suspended from school, Paul appears “before the faculty of the Pittsburgh High School to account for his various misdemeanours” (102). Interestingly, the narrator describes this meeting as an “inquisition.”

During the meeting, Paul’s “teachers were asked to state their respective charges against him, which they did with such a rancor and aggrievedness as evinced that this was not a usual case” (102). The narrator mentions the following charges: “Disorder and impertinence were among the offenses named, yet each of his instructors felt that it was scarcely possible to put into words the real cause of the trouble” (102). His teachers “fell upon him without mercy, his English teacher leading the pack” (103). Afterwards, some of the teachers “remembered having seen a miserable street cat set at bay by a ring of tormentors” (104).

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Song (Joseph) Cho, Doctor of Intercultural Studies (DIS)
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Hampton University
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