『주홍 글자』: 보수적인 화자와 급진적인 헤스터, 그리고 호손의 우울한 결론

• 영문명: The Scarlet Letter: The Conservative Narrator, Radical Hester, and Hawthorne's Gloomy Conclusion
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 김은형(Eun Hyoung Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제48집 1호, 53~80쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.05.30

영문 초록

This paper analyzes Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter as a romance narrative in which the narrator ambitiously lays out a romantic vision of social integration for resolving conflicts, which flare up between a resistant individual and an oppressive society over the issues of class, gender, and generation. As the narrative progresses, however, the narrator's attempt to envision an integrative society is thwarted. First, in spite of the 7-year punishment of wearing the scarlet letter "A" on her bosom, Hester never repents for her adultery. Instead, she dreams of a complete overhaul of the gender system that undergirds Puritan patriarchy and the middle-class ideology of domesticity. Second, the romantic vision based on Dimmesdale' s feeble and selfish manhood-which is preferred by the conservative narrator-not only suppresses Hester but also reduces his own individuality to the "hollow abstractions" of the repressive social system. Consequently, Hawthorne's narrative sinks into deep gloom because his fictional world of romance proves as much oppressive and alienating as the 17-century and 19th-century cultural institutions whose predicaments he has tried to address.

목차

Ⅰ. 여전히 지속되는 문제: 중산층, 가정, 그리고 로맨스 작가

Ⅱ. 로맨스적 대안 구성의 어려움: 이기적인 남성 vs. 길들이기 힘든 여성

Ⅲ. 로맨스적 대안의 첫 번째 모형: 제도를 등지는 강인한 개인, 헤스터

Ⅳ. 로맨스적 대안의 두 번째 모형: 제도에 투항하는 연약한 개인, 딤즈데일

Ⅴ. 로맨스의 사회 통합적 대안 제시의 실패: 호손의 우울한 결론

인용문헌

Abstract

키워드

『주홍 글자』 로맨스 청교도 가부장제 개인 중산층 가정 The Scarlet Letter Romance Puritan Patriarchy Individual Middle-class Domesticity