“누가 이웃이 되겠느냐?”: 『싸일러스 마너』에 나타난 윤리
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In this essay the ethical message of George Eliot's Silas Marner is analyzed in connection with Levinas’s idea of ethics, hospitality to the other. Two communities with different atmosphere, cultures, and belief systems are compared. Lantern Yard which Silas left after being suspected as a thief is located in a city with strong evangelical fervor and closed system of meaning. On the other hand, Raveloe where Silas started an isolated life and founded new relationship, is in a rural area with loose Anglican belief and loose system of meaning. From the fact that Silas was rescued from his insect-like life after he ‘welcomed’ a baby arrived from ‘an unknown place’ and established a new subjectivity, we can say that Silas Marner enacts Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics of hospitality. Through his act of hospitality to the absolute other, Silas could make a contact with Raveloe people, accept his past life in Lantern Yard as part of ‘the unknown,’ and trust the Raveloe people and the darkness which ‘the unknown beings’ control.
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In this essay the ethical message of George Eliot's Silas Marner is analyzed in connection with Levinas’s idea of ethics, hospitality to the other. Two communities with different atmosphere, cultures, and belief systems are compared. Lantern Yard which Silas left after being suspected as a thief is located in a city with strong evangelical fervor and closed system of meaning. On the other hand, Raveloe where Silas started an isolated life and founded new relationship, is in a rural area with loose Anglican belief and loose system of meaning. From the fact that Silas was rescued from his insect-like life after he ‘welcomed’ a baby arrived from ‘an unknown place’ and established a new subjectivity, we can say that Silas Marner enacts Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics of hospitality. Through his act of hospitality to the absolute other, Silas could make a contact with Raveloe people, accept his past life in Lantern Yard as part of ‘the unknown,’ and trust the Raveloe people and the darkness which ‘the unknown beings’ control.
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