「행복한 왕자 외」와 「석류나무 집」: 와일드의 기독교 사회주의
A Study of The Happy Prince and Others and A House of Pomegranates: Oscar Wilde's Christian Socialism
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This paper aims at analysing Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales in The Happy Prince and Others and A House of Pomegranates in terms of Christian Socialism. Its assumption is that in Wilde’s tales there are two kinds. In one kind all the morally excellent heroes die in the end without any rewards for their Christian suffering and self-sacrifice for others. This pattern makes the readers question consistently the capitalist society in which those heroes live and suggests that Christian beliefs like self-sacrifice or love for others cannot be solutions to solve the problems of the capitalist society. Instead those Christian virtues consolidate the capitalist social system that contributes only to the comfort and wealth of the middle and upper class. Moreover this kind of tales suggests a widely renovative change of social structure itself into another form of social paradigm. In another kind of tales, Wilde shows that along with the socialist line of thought all the evils of social problem of the capitalist society can be conquered by sharing the wealth and joy together while removing private property system out of that capitalist society. As a socialist Wilde is quite different from other socialists in the sense that in his socialism there are Jesus Christ’s teachings at the center. In the meantime, he doesn’t believe in the Christian virtues like pain, self-sacrifice and love for others.
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This paper aims at analysing Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales in The Happy Prince and Others and A House of Pomegranates in terms of Christian Socialism. Its assumption is that in Wilde’s tales there are two kinds. In one kind all the morally excellent heroes die in the end without any rewards for their Christian suffering and self-sacrifice for others. This pattern makes the readers question consistently the capitalist society in which those heroes live and suggests that Christian beliefs like self-sacrifice or love for others cannot be solutions to solve the problems of the capitalist society. Instead those Christian virtues consolidate the capitalist social system that contributes only to the comfort and wealth of the middle and upper class. Moreover this kind of tales suggests a widely renovative change of social structure itself into another form of social paradigm. In another kind of tales, Wilde shows that along with the socialist line of thought all the evils of social problem of the capitalist society can be conquered by sharing the wealth and joy together while removing private property system out of that capitalist society. As a socialist Wilde is quite different from other socialists in the sense that in his socialism there are Jesus Christ’s teachings at the center. In the meantime, he doesn’t believe in the Christian virtues like pain, self-sacrifice and love for others.
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