셰익스피어의 『햄릿』과 테니슨의 『모드』의 비교연구: 생각의 문제
A Comparative Study between Hamlet and Maud: The Problem of Thinking
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The current essay has attempted to make a comparative analysis on the problem of thinking between Shakespeare's Hamlet and Tennyson's Maud. For an understanding of the drama Hamlet, as it “makes the play what it is” (Zhang 292), it is important to examine Hamlet’s thinking. Around the time when Hamlet was written, some doubts over human thinking prevailed, although ‘the power of thinking’ is still considered as a core requirement for a man to be entitled as a human being. Such a complicated attribute of human being, i.e. thinking was reflected in Hamlet with a focus on skepticism on thinking. Hamlet himself expressed his doubt on his own thinking in his attempt to gain the validity of the Ghost's reference. Hamlet's questions and reconsiderations of his own thinking, the incomprehensibility of the ghost within human understanding, and Hamlet's wrong judgement and misinterpretation of other people's behavior seemed to indicate Shakespeare's skepticism on human thinking. The most skeptical side on human thinking in Hamlet was represented by Hamlet's solipsism with his own thinking. His thinking on his father's death and his mother's sudden marriage to his own uncle whom he considers inferior to his father cast him into melancholy, pessimistic view toward life, misogyny, and even to death wish. Overwhelmed with his solipsism he was almost driven to insaneness. Tennyson's Maud is a monodrama where a melancholic monomania akin to Hamlet suffered from solipsism with his own thinking. Maud has several things common to Hamlet in that the death of the speaker's father traumatized him and eventually caused him to be isolated from the society and to suffer in melancholia. To note, the strong skepticism of obsessive thinking was more highlighted in Maud than that in Hamlet. Maud's speaker can be considered as a Tennysonian type of Hamlet considering that Tennyson referred to Maud as “Little Hamlet”. To him, Hamlet was a character who suffered from inner pain raised by his obsessive way of thinking and he created a Hamlet-type character in Maud. Through the character, he seemed to raise the problem of solipsistic way of thinking which was more intense than Hamlet's.
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The current essay has attempted to make a comparative analysis on the problem of thinking between Shakespeare's Hamlet and Tennyson's Maud. For an understanding of the drama Hamlet, as it “makes the play what it is” (Zhang 292), it is important to examine Hamlet’s thinking. Around the time when Hamlet was written, some doubts over human thinking prevailed, although ‘the power of thinking’ is still considered as a core requirement for a man to be entitled as a human being. Such a complicated attribute of human being, i.e. thinking was reflected in Hamlet with a focus on skepticism on thinking. Hamlet himself expressed his doubt on his own thinking in his attempt to gain the validity of the Ghost's reference. Hamlet's questions and reconsiderations of his own thinking, the incomprehensibility of the ghost within human understanding, and Hamlet's wrong judgement and misinterpretation of other people's behavior seemed to indicate Shakespeare's skepticism on human thinking. The most skeptical side on human thinking in Hamlet was represented by Hamlet's solipsism with his own thinking. His thinking on his father's death and his mother's sudden marriage to his own uncle whom he considers inferior to his father cast him into melancholy, pessimistic view toward life, misogyny, and even to death wish. Overwhelmed with his solipsism he was almost driven to insaneness. Tennyson's Maud is a monodrama where a melancholic monomania akin to Hamlet suffered from solipsism with his own thinking. Maud has several things common to Hamlet in that the death of the speaker's father traumatized him and eventually caused him to be isolated from the society and to suffer in melancholia. To note, the strong skepticism of obsessive thinking was more highlighted in Maud than that in Hamlet. Maud's speaker can be considered as a Tennysonian type of Hamlet considering that Tennyson referred to Maud as “Little Hamlet”. To him, Hamlet was a character who suffered from inner pain raised by his obsessive way of thinking and he created a Hamlet-type character in Maud. Through the character, he seemed to raise the problem of solipsistic way of thinking which was more intense than Hamlet's.
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