This paper explores the role of the trickster in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Toad among the main characters plays a role as a trickster who engages in trickery, deceives and violates the moral code of the community, and who at the same time conveys moral lessons within a society, allowing him to mock and subvert the existing system. This trickster is usually humorous and the tales generally combine both comical and satirical elements. On this account, the trickster is essential in literary fairy tales, where writers reflect their need for escape from necessity, conflict, or compromise. In The Wind in the Willows, after stealing one of the finest cars to drive down a dirt road, Toad is an infamous outlaw, hopping trains and river rafts and trying to play a trick on officials at every turn. But while he finds pleasure in doing these things, his friends, Rat, Mole and Badger, fret over him as time goes by. What is worse, without Toad around, his friends have not been able to defend themselves against the scheming Weasels that have overthrown the Toad Hall. After retaking the house, Toad decides to lead a quiet, steady, respectable life, looking after and improving his property, and moreover doing a little gardening. Accordingly, I argue that this work is about a tale of the aesthetic of domestic life of the middle class in the Victorian Age, and that Grahame looks back to a Victorian imagination that holds deeply to ideals of pastoral and quiet life through the trickster Toad.
목차
I. 트릭스터 II. 문학 동화와 『버드나무에 부는 바람』 III. 트릭스터로서의 두꺼비 IV. 트릭스터를 통한 빅토리아조 중산층 가치의 재꽉인 Works Cited Abstract
키워드
케네스 그레이엄『버드나무에 부는 바람』트릭스터두꺼비문학 동화빅토리아조 중산층Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowstricksterToadliterary fairy talethe middle class in the Victorian Age
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]