영문학 수업에서 『비밀의 정원』 읽기

• 영문명: Reading The Secret Garden in English Literature Class
• 발행기관: 한국영미문학교육학회
• 저자명: 원유경(Yookyeong Won)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미문학교육』영미문학교육 제17집 1호, 81~108쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.03.30

영문 초록

After reading Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, students are usually moved by children’s innocent laughter, beauty, magic, and romantic atmosphere of the idealistic English garden. When asked to talk about its literary value, they try to find some biographical facts, explain the cult of gardening as a result of industrialization and urbanization, or trace the romantic view of children as a savior of the world. It is important in literature class to learn the ways of reading, so I told the students to think about how to approach The Secret Garden ideologically. At first, students wondered if it is necessary to analyze the work trying to find ideological themes in a beautiful work; however, as time went on, they begin to be greatly interested in this unfamiliar, critical way of reading. This paper aims to show the ideological reading models of The Secret Garden I used in my classroom. In The Secret Garden, Anglo-Indian Mary Lennox was sent back to England after her parents died from cholera in India. Spoilt, sickly and ugly Mary is changed into a caring, healthy, beautiful, and laughing girl in a mysterious garden in Yorkshire Moor land, where lower class people look like Mother Goddess or Piping Pan and a dead mother haunts her child among children's magical incantations. This work is classified as children’s literature, which aims at giving lessons for children. As an educational work, it can not but reflect the dominant ideology of the time. The garden is at first shown as an enclosed, repressed, buried secret garden, but later it is transformed into a beautiful rose garden with children’s laughter. This garden means England itself, where all kinds of sick and isolated people gather together and can be cured and harmonized with each other in healthy atmosphere. Mary takes care of and nurtures Colin, who would grow to be a master of the great Misselthwaite estate. In this sense, The Secret Garden is a work which embodies the wish for a happy family and healthy England, repressing the contemporary social conflicts and absurdities. This work shows the fantasy world where all the English people prosper without feeling any social problems such as poverty, hunger, sexualism, racism, or class conflict. Burnett overcame her earlier sentimentalism, but in a sense, she repeats the conventional gender role, imperial superiority, and romantic mystification of historical class conflict in this work. This romantic and magical children’s book The Secret Garden can be read as a problematic work reflecting the dominant gender/race/class ideology of the time.

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키워드

『비밀의 정원』 버넷 아동 정원 요크셔 이데올로기 The Secret Garden Burnett children garden Yorkshire ideology