Academic Scientific JournalsProtagonist and setting in the short story “The Greater Punishment” by Marek S. Huberath
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https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2024.4.04Keywords:
Huberath, “The Greater Punishment”, space, hell, moral transformationAbstract
The article presents an interpretation of one of Marek S. Huberath’s first published short stories, which is also one of his first “eschatological” fictions (texts set in the after-world). The article analyses how the protagonist, who finds himself in a combination of hell and purgatory, wastes his chance to mend his ways and stays within a potentially endless cycle of sin and punishment. The spatial setting of the story becomes a metaphorical reflection first of the character’s opportunity and then of its loss. The story thus seems to suggest the idea that an inveterate sinner suffers a potentially endless punishment because, in spite of retaining free will, he keeps making the same wrong choices.
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