“헛간방화 에피소드”에 드러난 포크너의 개작의도
Faulkner’s Intention of Revision Revealed in the “Barn Burning Episode”
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The contents and technique of the barn burning episode in the opening chapter of The Hamlet are different from that of its original story, the “Barn Burning,” in the four aspects. Firstly, the story of Sarty is eliminated. Secondly, there is an additional scene, a war of nerves between de Spain Major and Ab after a fire in the Major’s barn. Thirdly, Flem becomes the main character. Fourthly, the narrator, Ratliff, delivers stories objectively with humor. In the revision, Faulkner intercepts the readers’ recognitions―the radical resistance against an unfair sharecropping contract and lien system in the New South can be justified―by removing dramatic tension between Ab and Sarty. The writer devalued Ab’s behavior as an immoral conduct that is just a result of personal discontent. Moreover, Faulkner does not write seriously about the cause of conflict between Major and Ab. The writer describes these stories objectively and humorously in order to appease anger of Ab who is a poor white sharecropper. It is in this manner, Faulkner reduces the symbolic meaning of Ab’s arson. Faulkner revised the “Barn Burning,” which contains serious and revolutionary matters, into the barn burning episode written in a conservative and humorous way. Faulkner’s intention of revision is related with the decay of the Populist agrarian revolt and the return to laissez faire economism in the recovery momentum of The Great Depression. However, his ultimate concerns are not focused on the class warfare of the poor whites, but on the natural aristocrat’s social control.
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The contents and technique of the barn burning episode in the opening chapter of The Hamlet are different from that of its original story, the “Barn Burning,” in the four aspects. Firstly, the story of Sarty is eliminated. Secondly, there is an additional scene, a war of nerves between de Spain Major and Ab after a fire in the Major’s barn. Thirdly, Flem becomes the main character. Fourthly, the narrator, Ratliff, delivers stories objectively with humor. In the revision, Faulkner intercepts the readers’ recognitions―the radical resistance against an unfair sharecropping contract and lien system in the New South can be justified―by removing dramatic tension between Ab and Sarty. The writer devalued Ab’s behavior as an immoral conduct that is just a result of personal discontent. Moreover, Faulkner does not write seriously about the cause of conflict between Major and Ab. The writer describes these stories objectively and humorously in order to appease anger of Ab who is a poor white sharecropper. It is in this manner, Faulkner reduces the symbolic meaning of Ab’s arson. Faulkner revised the “Barn Burning,” which contains serious and revolutionary matters, into the barn burning episode written in a conservative and humorous way. Faulkner’s intention of revision is related with the decay of the Populist agrarian revolt and the return to laissez faire economism in the recovery momentum of The Great Depression. However, his ultimate concerns are not focused on the class warfare of the poor whites, but on the natural aristocrat’s social control.
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