푸슈킨의 <보리스 고두노프>와 살트이코프-쉐드린의 <골로블료프씨네 사람들> 비교 연구 - 스놉(Snob)으로서의 주인공 형상을 중심으로

Abstract

The primary objective of this paper is to sketch the contours of snob based on a peculiar model of act. Through the modernization Russians became believe the human capability and the possibility of realization of hunan value. But we discovered that characters of Pushkin's Boris Godunov, which are based in the Time of Troubles, always live like a actor under the mask. It attempts to prove the fact that the theatricality of everyday behaviors of the russian aristocracy can be understood as the emergence of the Russian modern snob, who understands and practices the recognition struggle in a distorted way. The hypothesis of this paper is that Pushkin and Saltykob's characters resemble each other and jointly embody the snobbism. Along with this, on the other hand, the second objective of this paper is to find the snob, who has escaped romanticism and became a monster. In Shchedrin's work, we can find the typical snob like a doll. They simply accept the given values of this world, have only desire to possess. Saltykob's achievement is of help to rsconsider characteristics of 'Russian attitude' towards some crucial categories surrounding the concept of self, such as freedom and human being's will.