로버트 하인라인의 『프라이데이』와 존 쿳시의 『포』의 비교 - 유토피아의 담론을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis studies the philosophical and literal particularities between Friday and Foe. These two works have the general temper of utopian world or future world that has been critically twisted from the original work, Robinson Crusoe. Friday is an SF novel in which Robert Heinlein created the character Friday who is a mechanical woman living the actual world in the future society and moving from the planet to the outer space world for her freedom. John Coetzee's Foe is a rewriting of Robinson Crusoe and he creates a female Susan castaway who comes to realize the necessity of rereading the original accident between Robinson and Friday. Here I pointed out that people have an interest in saying that everybody knows this. And we know that everybody recognizes this or that nobody can deny it. In this sense the literal and philosophical thoughts from the ancient to the contemporary have different images of thought, borrowed from the pure element of common senses between two men on the ideal but primitive society. And according to this images, thought out of the original work has an affinity with the true in the possible world. So it is the image of thought that everybody knows and is presumed to know what it means to think. The event between Robinson and Friday is not what occurs an accident, it is rather inside what occurs implicitly and explicitly. Event gives us signal. And the actor represents, but what he represents is always in the future and already in the past, whereas his representation is divided as a metaphysical epistemology from the ideal world Plato imagined in his Nation. Therefore it is available for us to understand what is the ubiquitous difference from actualization and imagination of philosophical and literal discourse in debating utopian concept.