새커리와 영국성 —『허영의 시장』에 대하여
Englishness in Thackeray's Vanity Fair
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The starting point of this essay on Vanity Fair is the nature of Thackeray’s morality which has been taken for granted as obvious. Thackeray presents no ideal moral figure, no clear moral standard, no ethical system; his morality is implicitly inscribed in the text. Thackeray’s idea of morality which is closely connected with his idea of truth invites the reader to see it in the English tradition of empiricism. The empiricist assumes that truth exists in a supposedly pregiven reality and that the subject can gain the knowledge of truth through objective observation. The English subject is viewed as a moral one since to see and to know reality as it is objectively forms the basis for moral action. These English empiricist attitudes are represented in the narrative form of Vanity Fair. Such discursive features of Vanity Fair as the use of diverse personas of the narrator, the uses of irony, the narrator’s reticence, and the style mirror Thackeray's English empiricist attitudes. The analysis of Thackeray’s empiricist discourse reveals that Thackeray attempts to evoke his middle class readers to see themselves in 'the mirror of the world' they live in. It also reveals that Thackeray's concern with moral truth is an expression of his desire for Englishness, which has a political implication when it is put in the context of the historical, social, and cultural background of Waterloo, the Regency, and the individualist bourgeois tradition of English empiricism.
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The starting point of this essay on Vanity Fair is the nature of Thackeray’s morality which has been taken for granted as obvious. Thackeray presents no ideal moral figure, no clear moral standard, no ethical system; his morality is implicitly inscribed in the text. Thackeray’s idea of morality which is closely connected with his idea of truth invites the reader to see it in the English tradition of empiricism. The empiricist assumes that truth exists in a supposedly pregiven reality and that the subject can gain the knowledge of truth through objective observation. The English subject is viewed as a moral one since to see and to know reality as it is objectively forms the basis for moral action. These English empiricist attitudes are represented in the narrative form of Vanity Fair. Such discursive features of Vanity Fair as the use of diverse personas of the narrator, the uses of irony, the narrator’s reticence, and the style mirror Thackeray's English empiricist attitudes. The analysis of Thackeray’s empiricist discourse reveals that Thackeray attempts to evoke his middle class readers to see themselves in 'the mirror of the world' they live in. It also reveals that Thackeray's concern with moral truth is an expression of his desire for Englishness, which has a political implication when it is put in the context of the historical, social, and cultural background of Waterloo, the Regency, and the individualist bourgeois tradition of English empiricism.
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