This essay focuses on the conflicts of desire and convention in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying from oriental humanistic view of life in which one’s identity is defined by the relationships he or she makes with other individuals, not by one’s peculiarity. The heroine, Addie’s passion of life is blocked by her husband Anse’s selfishness and laziness. Anse represents the distorted aspects of convention. His love is different from what Addie wants from him. So she does not believe the word ‘love’. Instead, she believes in the physical actions in which she perceives their bloods are mixed and become one while Anse makes use of the convention for his own purpose. His strategy is to dry up other people’s patience and simplify everything into shame or guilty. Their distorted relationship influence their children who take part in Addie’s burial journey with each one having his or her own secret and motive. Their world is a closed one where each one has its own territory isolated from others making this journey terrible and grotesque. At the end of the journey their gains are too petty to be perceived compared with their difficulties and efforts. It proves to be the triumph of manipulative conventionality that Anse best represents. But at the background of this final scene, the ever lasting human virtues such as creative passion, patience, devotion, devotion and service remain as human potentials.
목차
I. 서론 II. 욕망과 관행의 갈등 III. 분노의 제 양상 IV. 영웅적 행위와 통속성에 대한 분노 V. 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]