{"title":"Anglo Catholic’s Sin in the Light of Bergson’s Pure Memory in Family Reunion of T. S. Eliot","authors":"Jae-yong Yang","doi":"10.14364/t.s.eliot.2023.32.2.123-46","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Eliot’s love and betrayal to Vivien and Hale caused him to feel guilty about the religious sin which was originated from Anglo Catholic’s faith and Creed. The death of his first wife and the separation of Hale made him recognize the evil and sin of his Anglo-Catholic faith and creed handed down by Catholic religious tradition. Only Agatha of Harry’s family recognized that the sin of his family(original sin) was inherited to Harry’s conscience through Bergson’s mechanical memory. Harry perceived sin of his family through the aid of Agatha. Eliot’s self-consciousness of doing evil to Vivien Haigh-Wood and Emily Hale made him choose the way of purgatory. Bergson’s pure memory enabled him to be free from the sin of the past because of being cut off from the consciousness of the past. He had to choose purgatory way purifying his sin in search of Anglo-Catholic’ faith and creed. Now to be purged of sin, Harry had to undergo the way of self-surrender of Anglo-Catholic’ faith and Creed. Harry chose a way sinners must undergo to get salvation. After Harry purged the sin of his family, he could reach a still point free from the purgatory, which was negative way of redemption in Anglo-Catholicism.","PeriodicalId":413558,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society of Korea","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society of Korea","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14364/t.s.eliot.2023.32.2.123-46","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Eliot’s love and betrayal to Vivien and Hale caused him to feel guilty about the religious sin which was originated from Anglo Catholic’s faith and Creed. The death of his first wife and the separation of Hale made him recognize the evil and sin of his Anglo-Catholic faith and creed handed down by Catholic religious tradition. Only Agatha of Harry’s family recognized that the sin of his family(original sin) was inherited to Harry’s conscience through Bergson’s mechanical memory. Harry perceived sin of his family through the aid of Agatha. Eliot’s self-consciousness of doing evil to Vivien Haigh-Wood and Emily Hale made him choose the way of purgatory. Bergson’s pure memory enabled him to be free from the sin of the past because of being cut off from the consciousness of the past. He had to choose purgatory way purifying his sin in search of Anglo-Catholic’ faith and creed. Now to be purged of sin, Harry had to undergo the way of self-surrender of Anglo-Catholic’ faith and Creed. Harry chose a way sinners must undergo to get salvation. After Harry purged the sin of his family, he could reach a still point free from the purgatory, which was negative way of redemption in Anglo-Catholicism.