호모 사케르의 생명으로서 섯펜
Thomas Sutpen as a Life of homo sacer
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The purpose of the paper is to explore the image of Thomas Sutpen in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in the light of Agamben's Homo Sacer. According to Agamben, all human beings were divided into zoe and bios in Greece. Zoe is a living life in common with all living beings, whereas bios refers to a politically valuable life in polis. In the Deep South, Sutpen as a stranger would like to build a mansion, a grand design which may be a kind of revenge insulted by a negro slave at his youth. For Sutpen, the grand design is a way to become bios in Jefferson, but for other characters, Sutpen's image is close to zoe, such as a satan, a negro, a wild being. In this context, Sutpen wants to be a gentleman as a bios in Jefferson, but despite of his hope, still a bare life, a homo sacer. Charles Bon, who is a Sutpen's half-bleed son in West Indies, represents Sutpen's dilemma, which leads a valuable life to be respected by others, but never reaches to it. Bon is in a indiscernible area between zoe and bios for Sutpen and the people in Jefferson. Further, Jim Bond, Bon's brain- damaged son, fired the Sutpen's Hundred and his mumbling is not a voice and a logos but between both. Through Jim Bond, Faulkner would express the possibility which may be the new area between zoe and bios to be deconstructed the politically valuable life by the collective fantasies in Jefferson.
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The purpose of the paper is to explore the image of Thomas Sutpen in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in the light of Agamben's Homo Sacer. According to Agamben, all human beings were divided into zoe and bios in Greece. Zoe is a living life in common with all living beings, whereas bios refers to a politically valuable life in polis. In the Deep South, Sutpen as a stranger would like to build a mansion, a grand design which may be a kind of revenge insulted by a negro slave at his youth. For Sutpen, the grand design is a way to become bios in Jefferson, but for other characters, Sutpen's image is close to zoe, such as a satan, a negro, a wild being. In this context, Sutpen wants to be a gentleman as a bios in Jefferson, but despite of his hope, still a bare life, a homo sacer. Charles Bon, who is a Sutpen's half-bleed son in West Indies, represents Sutpen's dilemma, which leads a valuable life to be respected by others, but never reaches to it. Bon is in a indiscernible area between zoe and bios for Sutpen and the people in Jefferson. Further, Jim Bond, Bon's brain- damaged son, fired the Sutpen's Hundred and his mumbling is not a voice and a logos but between both. Through Jim Bond, Faulkner would express the possibility which may be the new area between zoe and bios to be deconstructed the politically valuable life by the collective fantasies in Jefferson.
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