In Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska, Deborah, the heroine of the play, has slept for 29 years and awakes at the age of 45 due to an injection, L-DOPA. She finds herself awakened with an aging body and confused with the gap between chronological age and psychological age. To Deborah, everything is imprecise, unexplainable, unknown, or unremembered. While Deborah was sleeping, Hornby, a doctor who had looked after her for years, and Pauline, who is Deborah’s sister and Hornby’s ex-wife, took care of her and now they help Deborah to understand and realize the world. However, their ways of helping Deborah are not only caring for her. But they impose a certain relationship on Deborah to have power to govern the others. While Hornby and Pauline struggle to have power and try to force Deborah, she starts to determine what the reality is and makes her selection from the information presented to her by herself. In order to situate herself within the context of her family and the world, she tries to search for identity, and this search for her identity is the process of awakening in the play. Now, Deborah remains awakened by herself with her subjectivity and the process of her awakening can be the process of her realization of her new identity.
목차
I. 서론 II. 본론 1. 데보라의 특별한 상태 2. 혼비의 데보라 깨우기 3. 폴린의 데보라 깨우기 4. 데보라 스스로 잠깨기 III. 결론 Works Cited Abstract
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]