베아트리체 없는 연옥에 남기: 호손의 「라파치니의 딸」 연구
Wandering in Purgatory without Beatrice: on the Problem of Eden in Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a story of a New Eden projected by Dr. Rappaccini. He wants to make a morally perfect world by using his scientific knowledge. So he tries to change his grotesque garden into a living world where his isolated daughter can live with her newly-invited espouser. Giovanni's love story is a story of his being made into a Rappaccini's Adam. However, Rappaccini's project is baffled at the very moment of his triumph, when Giovanni refuses to live as his new Adam. Giovanni refuses just because he cannot be sure of Beatrice's spirituality. He regards his polluted state as a cursed one and he tries to return to the normality by taking Baglioni's antidote. But we cannot blame Giovanni for his inability to see Beatrice's spiritual innocence. It results not from his own fault but from the fact that his Beatrice, by contrast with Dante's original one, fails to assure him of her own spirituality. The story affirms that Rappaccini’s Eden has no means for its own existential justification. Through Giovanni's tragic predicament, with Rappaccini’s unjustifiable dream, Hawthorne requests his readers to reconsider the puritan dream of the New Jerusalem in its moral foundation.
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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a story of a New Eden projected by Dr. Rappaccini. He wants to make a morally perfect world by using his scientific knowledge. So he tries to change his grotesque garden into a living world where his isolated daughter can live with her newly-invited espouser. Giovanni's love story is a story of his being made into a Rappaccini's Adam. However, Rappaccini's project is baffled at the very moment of his triumph, when Giovanni refuses to live as his new Adam. Giovanni refuses just because he cannot be sure of Beatrice's spirituality. He regards his polluted state as a cursed one and he tries to return to the normality by taking Baglioni's antidote. But we cannot blame Giovanni for his inability to see Beatrice's spiritual innocence. It results not from his own fault but from the fact that his Beatrice, by contrast with Dante's original one, fails to assure him of her own spirituality. The story affirms that Rappaccini’s Eden has no means for its own existential justification. Through Giovanni's tragic predicament, with Rappaccini’s unjustifiable dream, Hawthorne requests his readers to reconsider the puritan dream of the New Jerusalem in its moral foundation.
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