This paper aims to examine the tragic in Hemingway’s short story, “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber” by using the tragic factors in Aristotle’s On the Art of Poetry. In the era of Ancient Greece, Aristotle explained the tragic factors that were needed to play ancient Greek tragedy. In Hemingway’s “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber”, we can find out the tragic factors which are depicted in Aristotle’s On the Art of Poetry. There are essential Aristotelian tragic factors in “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber”. First, in terms of tragedy, this short story is consisted of three steps, ‘A beginning’, ‘A middle’ and ‘An end’, as described in On the Art of Poetry. Second, the factor that ‘A Peripety’ and ‘A Discovery’ are repeated in “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber” can be considered for the important part of the tragedy. Last, in the composition of tragedy, Hemingway utilizes the relation of family. The accident within the family could maximize the effects of tragedy, as Aristotle emphasized that Sophocles’s The King Oedipus was the excellent one. As a result, this study shows that Hemingway’s “The Happy Short Life of Francis Macomber” reveals its tragic factors, including and showing the tragic theories in Aristotle’s On the Art of Poetry.
목차
I. 서론 II. 급전과 발견을 통한 「프란시스 매코머의 짧고 행복한 삶」의 비극성 III. 뒤바뀐 급전과 가족관계 내의 비극: 비극의 극대화 IV. 결론 Works Cited Abstract
키워드
시학비극매코머급전발견On the Art of PoetrytragedyMacomberperipetydiscovery
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]