「여기 서서 다림질 하고 있지요」에 나타난 침묵
Silence in “I Stand Here Ironing”
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While areas defined by language are regarded as revealed realities, those, which do not have linguistic signs, become ‘non-realities,’ left as silent. This represents that language cannot fully capture human experience, suggesting that the reality, defined in language, may not be a total truth. Silence is not equal to absence. Rather, silence functions as a resistance to language by breaking through the (im)possibility of language, and (re)creates reality by actively participating in the production of meaning. Tillie Olsen in “I Stand Here Ironing” does not stop at exposing the “unnaturalness” of silence, but rather takes over the realm of silence. Emily’s silence, caused by socio-structural alienation, is transformed into creative pantomime. Emily is born again as an artist by breaking through the past memories of hers and the narrator’s through pantomime, and creating ‘the other’ reality in the space of silence. Emily’s active choice of silence shows that, rather than giving up the language itself, she can imagine reality beyond the existing language. Emily’s artistic creation, pantomime, could not be completed without “eyes to see” (10) it. Only when readers are able to ‘see’ the words of the Emilys they meet in their daily lives, does “the other” reality become “the given.”
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While areas defined by language are regarded as revealed realities, those, which do not have linguistic signs, become ‘non-realities,’ left as silent. This represents that language cannot fully capture human experience, suggesting that the reality, defined in language, may not be a total truth. Silence is not equal to absence. Rather, silence functions as a resistance to language by breaking through the (im)possibility of language, and (re)creates reality by actively participating in the production of meaning. Tillie Olsen in “I Stand Here Ironing” does not stop at exposing the “unnaturalness” of silence, but rather takes over the realm of silence. Emily’s silence, caused by socio-structural alienation, is transformed into creative pantomime. Emily is born again as an artist by breaking through the past memories of hers and the narrator’s through pantomime, and creating ‘the other’ reality in the space of silence. Emily’s active choice of silence shows that, rather than giving up the language itself, she can imagine reality beyond the existing language. Emily’s artistic creation, pantomime, could not be completed without “eyes to see” (10) it. Only when readers are able to ‘see’ the words of the Emilys they meet in their daily lives, does “the other” reality become “the given.”
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