Many nihilistic feelings appear in the Play Horai. And it is similar to nihilism in Modernism. Hero’s passion to God and eternal life come from belief of Christianity but hero’s nihilistic feelings and tragic death in the end are influenced by nihilism in Modernism. Hero who search for God and eternal life make up his mind to leave this world. He decides to clime mountain Horai to abandon his body and get eternal life. But he meet Satan in place of God there. After that he decides to go to Hell. Until now researchers could not understand this changing of goal in this plot. Why hero change his aim to go to another world? Why he decided to go to Hell? Did he abandon himself to despair? Does he go to Hell to meet dead lover, Tuyuhime?But we can solve this problem by the idea of nihilism. The times when this Play was written was the end of 19th century. This was the time when western people who had kept christian belief fell into nihilism in europe. After the enlightenment movement of rationalism science developed rapidly and life of people became material. So many people in Europe came to doubt their Christian tradition. They lost belief to God and fell into nihilism. This kind of spirit is the typical character of 19th century in Europe. So we can say that the destruction of believer and the absence of God in the Play Horai is the influence of nihilism of Europe in the end of 19th century.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.