“집안의 유령” :『 흰옷 입은 여인 』에 나타난 빅토리아 시대의 이상적 여인
Ghost in the House: The Victorian Ideal Woman in The Woman in White
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This paper aims to investigate the implied meaning of “the woman in white” in The Woman in White in terms of Victorian patriarchal ideology. The woman in white has several connotations in its connection with patriarchal ideology because the color white is associated with female purity, chastity, blank, and absence (since white color results from the absence of color). Consequently, the woman in white refers to the pure and chaste woman or non-identity/absence of identity. In this respect, the woman in white represents the Victorian ideal woman who is characterized by chastity, purity, and submissive feminity without any independent identity. The color white is also associated with marriage (because color of the traditional wedding dress is white) and a ghost which is usually depicted as wearing a white clothes, thus making a woman in white a symbol of a bride as well as a ghost. In a word, the woman in white stands for an ideal woman in a patriarchal society as well as a ghost which loses its identity through marriage. The title of the novel is meaningful in that the woman in white represents the Victorian ideal woman, that is, the angel in the house, as well as the ghost in the house. The angle in the house, however, is another name for a ghost in the house who is deprived of her own identity by submitting to the demand of patriarchal society, while the ghost in the house becoming the “metonymy of femininity” under patriarchal society. Thus, this novel is about the angel in the house who becomes a ghost as well as the patriarchal society which produces such a ghost.
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This paper aims to investigate the implied meaning of “the woman in white” in The Woman in White in terms of Victorian patriarchal ideology. The woman in white has several connotations in its connection with patriarchal ideology because the color white is associated with female purity, chastity, blank, and absence (since white color results from the absence of color). Consequently, the woman in white refers to the pure and chaste woman or non-identity/absence of identity. In this respect, the woman in white represents the Victorian ideal woman who is characterized by chastity, purity, and submissive feminity without any independent identity. The color white is also associated with marriage (because color of the traditional wedding dress is white) and a ghost which is usually depicted as wearing a white clothes, thus making a woman in white a symbol of a bride as well as a ghost. In a word, the woman in white stands for an ideal woman in a patriarchal society as well as a ghost which loses its identity through marriage. The title of the novel is meaningful in that the woman in white represents the Victorian ideal woman, that is, the angel in the house, as well as the ghost in the house. The angle in the house, however, is another name for a ghost in the house who is deprived of her own identity by submitting to the demand of patriarchal society, while the ghost in the house becoming the “metonymy of femininity” under patriarchal society. Thus, this novel is about the angel in the house who becomes a ghost as well as the patriarchal society which produces such a ghost.
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