Evolution or Degeneration in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure in the Context of the Darwinism

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ㆍ발행기관 : 한국문학과종교학회 ㆍ수록지정보 : 문학과 종교 / 20권 / 3호
ㆍ저자명 : KIM Chi-Hun

한국어 초록

빅토리아 시대 영국은 변화와 역설의 시기였다. 왜냐하면 과학과 기술과 관련하여 발전과 업적을 이루었지만, 동시에 서로 상반되는 생각들이 공존하는 시기였기 때문이다. 예를 들어 이 당시엔 물질주의와 반물질주의, 세속화와 영성, 과거와 현재 등이 복잡하고 미묘하게 서로 얽여 있는 시대였다. 한편으로 문명과 삶이 계속해서 발전해나갈 것이라는 낙관론이 있었지만, 동시에 퇴보라는 생각도 공존하였다. 특별히 챨스 다윈의

영어 초록

The Victorian England was an age of transition and paradox in that it had experienced progress in relation to science and technology; however, at the same time contrasting ideas co-existed, for example, materialism and anti-materialism, secularization and spirituality. While it is coloured with the sense of progress, it has to deal with the idea of degeneration. Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species may symbolize the hope of advancement, but the people still appear to experience the sense of degeneration. If we look at Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, we can find such thought in the two characters, Jude and Sue. Accordingly, this essay investigates Jude the Obscure, particularly, in terms of religion and women in two characters, Jude and Sue, in the context of the Victorian age. This essay portrays that the two characters attempt to build up a kind of new identity in relation to education and womanhood against a traditional authority, but their failures allude to degeneration in Hardy’s pessimism.

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