『끝이 좋으면 다 좋다』: 독자의 인식 문제의 거울
All’s Well That Ends Well: A Mirror of the Reader’s Perceptual Problems
- 발행
- 2014
- 소속·발행
- 동아대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- DOI
- 10.17054/jmemes.2014.24.2.213
- 원문등록
- 2014-12-06
- 원문
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개념
키워드
문제, 문제극, 사랑, 결혼, 처녀성, 잠자리 속임수, 보수적, 정체성, 거울, problem, problem plays, love, marriage, virginity, bed trick, conservative, identity, mirror
초록
As one of Shakespeare's problem plays, All's Well That Ends Well contains complex problems, social as well as personal, and also reflects the audience's or the reader's own problems. Though they are resolved in the end of the play, problems of sin and guilt are not clearly resolved. This play is usually called a problem play, not only because it cannot easily be classified as either a comedy, or a tragedy or a romance, but also because the play deals with social problems that its heroine must overcome. Confronting her problems, Helena, the play's heroine, shows two contradictory characters, both passive and active, conservative and creative. She does not attempt to destroy the traditional social hierarchy in which she can hardly achieve her love for Bertram. She rather uses the social hierarchy in order to pursue her love, when she dares to cure the king's apparently incurable disease. But her very use of the social hierarchy is also active and adventurous. Valuing her right to choose her own life partner against the traditional system of arranged marriage, she decides to lose her virginity to her own liking. She only seeks and uses the best available device to solve her problem, t