아이스퀼로스와 셰익스피어 비교연구: 『오레스테이아』(Ὀρεστεια) 삼부작과 『맥베스』(Macbeth)에 나타난 운명의 이중성 (A Comparative Study on Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy: the Ambivalence of Fate)

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· 발행기관 : 한국셰익스피어학회
· 수록지 정보 : Shakespeare Review / 55권 / 1호 / 103 ~ 124페이지
· 저자명 : 정해갑

초록

Fate, in Aeschylus and Shakespeare, is not the destiny given mechanically by divinities, but the oracle open to humans’ free will and choice. The tragic heroes, evil doers in this case have to answer for the results of their fate, since their ethos, or character works as a main force driving their life to tragic fall, as is the case of Adam and Eve. Remarkably, it is their own hybris, or pride that drives Agamemnon and Macbeth to fall a victim to the oracle, an oracle that is so ambivalent as to play the devil with their life. The oracle “in a double sense” is simply up to their choice or free will, and the result is really the product of “things bad begun” arising from their hybris. The dynamics of myth and reason in the 5th century BC accounts for the “double sense” aesthetics of fate linking Aeschylus and Shakespeare, with the court of Areopagus trying to accomplish justice, regardless of the oracle.

영어초록

Fate, in Aeschylus and Shakespeare, is not the destiny given mechanically by divinities, but the oracle open to humans’ free will and choice. The tragic heroes, evil doers in this case have to answer for the results of their fate, since their ethos, or character works as a main force driving their life to tragic fall, as is the case of Adam and Eve. Remarkably, it is their own hybris, or pride that drives Agamemnon and Macbeth to fall a victim to the oracle, an oracle that is so ambivalent as to play the devil with their life. The oracle “in a double sense” is simply up to their choice or free will, and the result is really the product of “things bad begun” arising from their hybris. The dynamics of myth and reason in the 5th century BC accounts for the “double sense” aesthetics of fate linking Aeschylus and Shakespeare, with the court of Areopagus trying to accomplish justice, regardless of the oracle.

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