대화주의의 관점에서 조망한 이언 매큐언의 『아동법』
Ian McEwan’s Children Act from the Perspective of Dialogism
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This paper examines the limits of rational thought in Ian McEwan’s novel Children Act from the perspective of Bakhtin’s dialogism, and explores its alternatives. Children Act deals with court cases surrounding children, and they mainly contain the unsolvable struggle between religion and science, which are the most powerful in modern society. A competent judge, Fiona Maye, believes that she makes decisions that are in the best interests and well-being of children by providing a rational perspective. The protagonist, Adam, suffering from leukemia but rejecting a blood transfusion because of Jehovah’s Witnesses doctrine, recovers from illness by Fiona’s rational judgment for blood transfusion. Having gained a new life, he relies on Fiona and wants to inter-communicate with her, but Fiona, who is lost in rational thought, cuts off personal communication with him. His tragedy of choosing to die by refusing a blood transfusion points out the limits of Fiona’s rational thought. It is believed that rational thought, which excludes emotion and relies on reason, can be supplemented from the dialogic perspective, which should be based on inter-communication with others. The dialogic view that human life consists of others’ language, that is, dialogism, will be able to supplement the limit of rational thought.
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This paper examines the limits of rational thought in Ian McEwan’s novel Children Act from the perspective of Bakhtin’s dialogism, and explores its alternatives. Children Act deals with court cases surrounding children, and they mainly contain the unsolvable struggle between religion and science, which are the most powerful in modern society. A competent judge, Fiona Maye, believes that she makes decisions that are in the best interests and well-being of children by providing a rational perspective. The protagonist, Adam, suffering from leukemia but rejecting a blood transfusion because of Jehovah’s Witnesses doctrine, recovers from illness by Fiona’s rational judgment for blood transfusion. Having gained a new life, he relies on Fiona and wants to inter-communicate with her, but Fiona, who is lost in rational thought, cuts off personal communication with him. His tragedy of choosing to die by refusing a blood transfusion points out the limits of Fiona’s rational thought. It is believed that rational thought, which excludes emotion and relies on reason, can be supplemented from the dialogic perspective, which should be based on inter-communication with others. The dialogic view that human life consists of others’ language, that is, dialogism, will be able to supplement the limit of rational thought.
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