이언 매큐언의『인듀어링 러브』에 나타난 이기적 유전자와 사랑
The Selfish Gene and Love in Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love
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From the Darwinian perspective, all the human behaviors and thoughts are operated by “the selfish gene,” the term coined by Richard Dawkins, which has long been evolving to survive by utilizing the limited quality and quantity of resources. And an organism which fails to regenerate by creating its “replicator” is doomed to extinction, for gene combinations which help an organism to survive and reproduce tend to also improve the gene’s own chances of being passed on through generations. Dawkins also coins the term “meme” for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such selfish replication may also be the principle for human culture. Ian McEwan is not only a controversial but more importantly influential writer in the 21st century academic world. His 1997 book Enduring Love is not exceptional in that it draws both literary and scientific attention. Intentionally set up with the dynamic conflict between the two cultures, namely art and science, the book explores the way in which the state of the modern minds is misinterpreted and estranged by each other. In this novel, the three main protagonists, Joe, Clarissa, and Jed, each representing the very important three elements of human civilization — cognition/science, emotion/ art, and faith/religion— meet an unexpected peril of life. The author of the novel employs the narrative of evolutionary science — in particular the narratives of gene and meme — to provoke the question of the two cultures famously addressed by Snow in the mid 20th century and the further discussions followed by the later Darwinian scholars such as Richard Dawkins. In this paper I aim to illustrate the way in which the author develops the idea of gene science and literature and how he proceeds to provide a sophisticated bridge between the two cultures and induce a kind of consilience by the recurrent name of love in the story of Enduring Love.
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From the Darwinian perspective, all the human behaviors and thoughts are operated by “the selfish gene,” the term coined by Richard Dawkins, which has long been evolving to survive by utilizing the limited quality and quantity of resources. And an organism which fails to regenerate by creating its “replicator” is doomed to extinction, for gene combinations which help an organism to survive and reproduce tend to also improve the gene’s own chances of being passed on through generations. Dawkins also coins the term “meme” for a unit of human cultural evolution analogous to the gene, suggesting that such selfish replication may also be the principle for human culture. Ian McEwan is not only a controversial but more importantly influential writer in the 21st century academic world. His 1997 book Enduring Love is not exceptional in that it draws both literary and scientific attention. Intentionally set up with the dynamic conflict between the two cultures, namely art and science, the book explores the way in which the state of the modern minds is misinterpreted and estranged by each other. In this novel, the three main protagonists, Joe, Clarissa, and Jed, each representing the very important three elements of human civilization — cognition/science, emotion/ art, and faith/religion— meet an unexpected peril of life. The author of the novel employs the narrative of evolutionary science — in particular the narratives of gene and meme — to provoke the question of the two cultures famously addressed by Snow in the mid 20th century and the further discussions followed by the later Darwinian scholars such as Richard Dawkins. In this paper I aim to illustrate the way in which the author develops the idea of gene science and literature and how he proceeds to provide a sophisticated bridge between the two cultures and induce a kind of consilience by the recurrent name of love in the story of Enduring Love.
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