Стилістична функція біблеїзмів у романі У. Стайрона “Сповідь Нета Тернера”

Abstract

This article is devoted to the consideration of the stylistic function of Biblical units in the inner speech of the main personage of W. Styron’s novel. Being allusions to the Holy Scripture antroponyms, toponyms, quotations and phraseological units of Biblical origin form new additional associative ties that assist in reflecting the protagonist’s psychological state and the motivation of his behaviour as a fanatic preacher of the Bible. At first sight it is unnatural for the priest to do evil as Nat Turner did. But there were Nat’s meditations on the Bible that lead him to commit cruelty because he was issueing from the analogy of the Jews and the Negroes. Like the Jewish people who struggled for shaking off the yoke of the Egyptian pharaohs the Negroes wanted to get rid of their oppressors.