Complaining that the legacy of early modern despair caused many writers to enlarge a particular sensitivity to banality and ugliness, Bellow accepted Judaism, which was positive, affirmative, optimistic. This essay deals with the alienation, recognition and rebirth of hero in Herzog from the view of Judaism. The hero is alienated from his family and friends because of his ego-centric character. He feels self-pity and expresses himself through incomplete and unmailed letter writing. But this letter writing means a forward step to solve his problem, even though the pattern of his thinking and feeling circulate only within himself. He still blames others for his sufferings, and not himself. In Judaism, suffering is essential to a recognition. After witnessing the trial of insane mother who kill her three-year-old poor baby and seeing his ex-wife and her paramour wash his daughter, he begins to understand the reality of life. He understands that life can not be explained and should be experienced. By abandoning his own ego and accepting the others as they are, he is reborn spiritually. Also Suffering is a bliss for the recognition of brotherhood, the uniqueness of an individual, the dignity and the divinity of man.
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]