남성적 여성들의 성 역할 부정 양상:「헨리 6세」 삼부작의 퓨셀과 마아가렛을 중심으로

Abstract

Yoonjoo LeeThe enormous economic and demographic as well as political changes experienced by early modern England were registered in the social fabric as acute anxiety about the breakdown of conventional hierarchies, especially female transgression against traditional gender roles. As gender was a significant way of representing social relations, the playwrights in this period dramatized unstable gender relations and explored assumptions about women in their plays. Shakespeare, in particular, examined patriarchal authority and its limits as well as the responses of women to this authority in his plays.This paper focuses on Pucelle and Margaret in Henry VI. They belong to the category of masculine women who transgress the rigid divisions of gender roles. Warlike Joan and Margaret are Amazons. Amazon denotes a warrior woman who wears armour and fights men. This term can extend metaphorically to women whose weapon is their verbal power. Through their ability which was thought to belong to men only, we can know that gender roles are not fixed by nature but by culture and system.Their vigorous language, sexual misconduct, and warlike attack topple the patriarchal history. They become threatening challenges to the norms and gender roles of patriarchal history and masculine culture. Therefore, they are called witches or prostitutes. In these Histories, it is also examined that the French champions are women, defining the conflict between England and France as a conflict between masculine and feminine values. Their warlike act and temperament tell how unnatural and unreasonable such patriarchal determinations of gender are.