윌라 캐더의 『오 개척자들이여!』 : 두 여성의 삶과 미국의 꿈

• 영문명: Willa Cather s O Pioneers!: The Lives of Two Women and the American Dream’
• 발행기관: 한국영어독서교육학회
• 저자명: 김보경(Kim, Bo-kyung)
• 간행물 정보: 『English Reading and Teaching』Vol.5 No.2, 23~47쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.12.30

영문 초록

The American Dream appears in various forms according to the change of the times. The immigrants who came to the New World, leaving their homeland wanted to construct ‘the second paradise’ in the New World. The material prosperity they wanted was the desire for worldly wealth and success. John Bergson, the father of Alexandra, came to the New World with his family, dreaming the American Dream , but he had made but little impression upon the wild land he had come to tame. Having death ahead, he inherits his land to Alexandra, not his sons. Alexandra does make the land her own, cultivating it with “love and yearning” rather than her father’s will to dominate. Gifted with imagination, she triumphs because she combines a mystic faith in the Divide with a pragmatic willingness to experiment with new farming techniques. Finally, she becomes one of the richest farmer on the Divide, and realizes the American Dream which her father did not fulfill. In the story of Emil’s and Marie’s passion and death, Willa Cather describes the story of adulterous or unlawful lovers whose desire cannot be contained by social structures and conventions. They fall in unlawful love and meet their death without making an effort for success. They didn t adapt themselves to the new circumstances and so they are failures of the American Dream.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가는 말

Ⅱ. 개척시대의 대조적인 두 여성

III. 대지를 통한 알렉산드라의 아메리칸 드림

IV. 에밀과 마리의 비극과 알렉산드라의 꿈의 완성

V. 나가는 말

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키워드

pioneer American Dream land immigrant passion