되짚어 보는 로렌스의 성의 정치학 - 「어머니와 딸」을 중심으로 (Revisiting D. H. Lawrence’s Sexual Politics: Focusing on ‘Mother and Daughter’)

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초록

D. H. Lawrence has been much accused of holding a masculinist viewpoint, despite his advocacy for a sexual revolution. This paper invites a reconsideration of some of the conventional approaches to “Mother and Daughter,” where a devouring mother is necessarily defeated by a father figure who intervenes in the close mother-child relationship. Rather than denigrating women and women’s power, promoting an exaggerated manhood, or glorifying violence inflicted on women, Lawrence in “Mother and Daughter” grasps women within the complicated and often ambivalent dynamics by both acknowledging and disrupting female power. Lawrence admits that feminine nature is not fulfilled through the renunciation of ‘masculine’ or intellectual pursuits, as Rachel, the mother, discloses, while revealing his anxiety about a detestable form of the female will and tyrannical motherhood. Whereas Lawrence subverts the traditional binary paradigm of witch/angel through the mother Rachel and the daughter Virginia, he is troubled by women’s usurpation of the marketplace, evident in Virginia’s professional career and Rachel’s financial ability. Yet, while describing a failure of mother-daughter symbiosis and the resultant dissolution of women’s community and their solidarity, with criticizing women who remain untamed and dismissive of men, this sardonic tale adopts an ironic note of hopelessness and anger towards male characters, Henry and Adrian, for their being the weaker sex. Furthermore, even Arnault, a father-figure, is satirized, revealing his inadequacy in reestablishing a patriarchal system, for his vanity and greed is too much engrossed in predatory capitalism. Instead of delineating his patriarchal or matriarchal ideal, Lawrence depicts more powerfully, and, with realistic sensibilities, the world of women. Although both mother and daughter seem to be beaten by Arnault, their specific acts of submission are paradoxically inlaid with female rage and rebellion, which hints at Lawrence’s affirmation of women’s challenges to a sexist culture.

영어초록

D. H. Lawrence has been much accused of holding a masculinist viewpoint, despite his advocacy for a sexual revolution. This paper invites a reconsideration of some of the conventional approaches to “Mother and Daughter,” where a devouring mother is necessarily defeated by a father figure who intervenes in the close mother-child relationship. Rather than denigrating women and women’s power, promoting an exaggerated manhood, or glorifying violence inflicted on women, Lawrence in “Mother and Daughter” grasps women within the complicated and often ambivalent dynamics by both acknowledging and disrupting female power. Lawrence admits that feminine nature is not fulfilled through the renunciation of ‘masculine’ or intellectual pursuits, as Rachel, the mother, discloses, while revealing his anxiety about a detestable form of the female will and tyrannical motherhood. Whereas Lawrence subverts the traditional binary paradigm of witch/angel through the mother Rachel and the daughter Virginia, he is troubled by women’s usurpation of the marketplace, evident in Virginia’s professional career and Rachel’s financial ability. Yet, while describing a failure of mother-daughter symbiosis and the resultant dissolution of women’s community and their solidarity, with criticizing women who remain untamed and dismissive of men, this sardonic tale adopts an ironic note of hopelessness and anger towards male characters, Henry and Adrian, for their being the weaker sex. Furthermore, even Arnault, a father-figure, is satirized, revealing his inadequacy in reestablishing a patriarchal system, for his vanity and greed is too much engrossed in predatory capitalism. Instead of delineating his patriarchal or matriarchal ideal, Lawrence depicts more powerfully, and, with realistic sensibilities, the world of women. Although both mother and daughter seem to be beaten by Arnault, their specific acts of submission are paradoxically inlaid with female rage and rebellion, which hints at Lawrence’s affirmation of women’s challenges to a sexist culture.

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