This study examines the women’s sisterhood which results in giving hope and rejuvenating the society in the Winter’s Tale. Male characters such as Leontes and Polixenes caught in the linear thinking of patriarchy, reconcile and were reborn through the devoted motherhood and the maternal sisterhood of women such as Hermione, Perdita and Paulina. Caught by linear and patriarchal thinking, Leontes recognizes the creation and wisdom of women such as Hermione and Paulina, who represent the cyclical image of nature, as treason and denial challenging him. With his baseless jealousy for adultery, Leontes orders Hermione to be imprisoned for adultery and treason and to abandon her daughter, Perdita, to a distant place as an illegitimate child. Leontes, who lost his heir, spent 16 years in regret and grief. Bringing a new life force to Sicilia, the barren land, is the motherly sisterhood of Hermione and Paulina and the vitality of Perdita described as “Maiden of Spring.” The archetypes of the motherly sisterhood can find in the Demeter and Persephone myths of Greek mythology. Shakespeare shows through The Winter’s Tale that the solid bond and the sisterhood of women can function as a positive force which changes the people and the society around them beyond family harmony.
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]