도스토옙스키의 「온순한 여자」와 자살의 문제 : 서술자 분석을 중심으로
Dostoevsky's The Meek One and the Problem of Suicide: Analysis on the Narrator
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This article aims to scrutinize Dostoevsky’s thought on the problem of suicide, examining the ‘meekness’ of the heroine in The Meek One by analyzing its narrator. It is the author’s main narrative strategy that the novel has the husband of victim as a narrator. The narrator pretends to repent his past mistreatment of heroine, partly admitting his fault or positing himself as a victim. Furthermore, through responses and excuses to the reader-judge, he keeps denying his own faults. Nevertheless, his deft speech bespeaks that he is the one who caused the suicide of ‘the meek one.’ Therefore, the narrator never accepts the opinions attributing heroine’s death to him. His speech is soliloquy in which debate is hidden, in other words ‘double speech.’ It is noteworthy that his speech style resembles his way of being, isolation. The narrator’s solitary life, however, stems from his desire to communicate. Having been continually ignored by others, he prefers isolation to disgrace. Only person with whom he can control the relationship is the heroine. The husband dominates and abuses his wife, in the meanwhile longs her sincere love. As this distorted emotion deepened, her endurance runs up to the last. After facing the heroine’s corpse, an opportunity to ruminate his past is given to the narrator. His regeneration depends on whether he accepts external speech and being. What is significant to the suicide of the heroine is that it remains as the starting point. In short, her acceptance of inevitable death and its possibility of causing his regeneration demonstrates the meekness of the suicide. Likewise, The Meek One shows multiple aspects of the author’s position on the problem of suicide.
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This article aims to scrutinize Dostoevsky’s thought on the problem of suicide, examining the ‘meekness’ of the heroine in The Meek One by analyzing its narrator. It is the author’s main narrative strategy that the novel has the husband of victim as a narrator. The narrator pretends to repent his past mistreatment of heroine, partly admitting his fault or positing himself as a victim. Furthermore, through responses and excuses to the reader-judge, he keeps denying his own faults. Nevertheless, his deft speech bespeaks that he is the one who caused the suicide of ‘the meek one.’ Therefore, the narrator never accepts the opinions attributing heroine’s death to him. His speech is soliloquy in which debate is hidden, in other words ‘double speech.’ It is noteworthy that his speech style resembles his way of being, isolation. The narrator’s solitary life, however, stems from his desire to communicate. Having been continually ignored by others, he prefers isolation to disgrace. Only person with whom he can control the relationship is the heroine. The husband dominates and abuses his wife, in the meanwhile longs her sincere love. As this distorted emotion deepened, her endurance runs up to the last. After facing the heroine’s corpse, an opportunity to ruminate his past is given to the narrator. His regeneration depends on whether he accepts external speech and being. What is significant to the suicide of the heroine is that it remains as the starting point. In short, her acceptance of inevitable death and its possibility of causing his regeneration demonstrates the meekness of the suicide. Likewise, The Meek One shows multiple aspects of the author’s position on the problem of suicide.
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