헨리 제임스의 『여인의 초상』: 이자벨 아처의 선택과 결말의 해석문제
A Study on Isabel Archer’s Choices and the Problematic Ending in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady
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This essay intends to interrogate Isabel Archer’s choices and the problematic ending in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. Many critics agree that her choices are related to the problem of her liberty and independence. In this respect, this work is about her growth, which shows how Isabel’s choices and her liberty conflict with convention, and how she is assimilated to the society. Then, did Isabel Archer renounce her liberty and independence when she returned to Rome where her egoistic husband, Gilbert Osmond, lived at the end of the novel? This essay maintains that this problematic ending as well as her choices is constructed on James’ intention to search into the New Woman Isabel’s interaction to the realities and her consciousness. This article ultimately argues that James investigates the subjectivity of the New Woman, making Isabel choose constantly in her life. James explores her consciousness especially in her confronting the problem of marriage which was the biggest problem to the New Woman. Unlike other contemporary novels which ended with marriage, this work continues to show Isabel’s life after marriage, which enables James to examine Isabel’s consciousness of her choices. In this regard, the so-called problematic “open ending” is consistent with James’s representation of Isabel’s choices which exhibits the stream of the consciousness of the New Woman through psychological realism.
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This essay intends to interrogate Isabel Archer’s choices and the problematic ending in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady. Many critics agree that her choices are related to the problem of her liberty and independence. In this respect, this work is about her growth, which shows how Isabel’s choices and her liberty conflict with convention, and how she is assimilated to the society. Then, did Isabel Archer renounce her liberty and independence when she returned to Rome where her egoistic husband, Gilbert Osmond, lived at the end of the novel? This essay maintains that this problematic ending as well as her choices is constructed on James’ intention to search into the New Woman Isabel’s interaction to the realities and her consciousness. This article ultimately argues that James investigates the subjectivity of the New Woman, making Isabel choose constantly in her life. James explores her consciousness especially in her confronting the problem of marriage which was the biggest problem to the New Woman. Unlike other contemporary novels which ended with marriage, this work continues to show Isabel’s life after marriage, which enables James to examine Isabel’s consciousness of her choices. In this regard, the so-called problematic “open ending” is consistent with James’s representation of Isabel’s choices which exhibits the stream of the consciousness of the New Woman through psychological realism.
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