This study aims at the father-daughter relationship in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders drawn heavily on his family background. It reveals the effect which the parent’s social and economic ambition for a child have upon individual, family and social life. Throughout the novel, Melbury, a father, has to bear the suffering to see his loving daughter’s unhappiness in a disastrous marriage into which he urges her, and Grace in practice suffers from her unhappy marriage. This study focuses on how Melbury tries to materialize his strong ambition in his daughter and to settle her unhappy marriage, and on Grace’s course of life into a disaster caused by her father’s demand and her own submission and insufficient self-assertion, such as her education which makes her a conventional woman, her rejection of Giles, her attraction and marriage to Fitzpiers and her unhappiness. Eventually, this study tries to show that this novel is a tragedy resulting from the close father-daughter relationship by studying the aspects of this relationship.
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]