토마스 하디의 『숲속의 사람들』에 나타난 여성화된 영웅주의
The Feminized Heroism presented in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders
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This paper aims to study The Feminized Heroism presented in The Woodlanders. This novel that immediately followed The Mayor of Casterbridge was the one that Hardy said that he liked as a story, the best of all. In The Woodlanders Hardy emphasizes the class changes of the community. The fact that the people's social status forming the mainstream in Little Hintock community goes up or down is emphasized by the lives of the characters. In especial, Grace’s father, Melbury’s thought is the key point which feminizes Giles’ heroism. Giles does not succeed in winning Grace as a wife in the end, and one possible reason for his failure may be that his heroism at times strays too close to the feminine for him to take up the dominant position in relation to the novel's heroine. The general development of the story is melancholy, and the ending of this novel unsatisfactory in any way but an artistic of view is only another evidence of Thomas Hardy's expressive methods. The good man suffers; the bad man not only prospers, but to make matters worse, this work shows signs of amendment without having been adequately punished. In this novel the woodlands as a rule show many problems of the community in many points of view as a process of the living of the residents. This paper proves incompatible contradictory aspects between community spirit and individuality related to Giles’s heroism, and I can see that the gap between the social class and gender representing the relations of the power located in the heart of the desire in the novel, finally functions heroism as a main feminizing cause. In this paper Giles shows pure and conscientious delicacy at that time and his undecorated heroism ends up in feminization, and results in romantic and pitiful main character.
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This paper aims to study The Feminized Heroism presented in The Woodlanders. This novel that immediately followed The Mayor of Casterbridge was the one that Hardy said that he liked as a story, the best of all. In The Woodlanders Hardy emphasizes the class changes of the community. The fact that the people's social status forming the mainstream in Little Hintock community goes up or down is emphasized by the lives of the characters. In especial, Grace’s father, Melbury’s thought is the key point which feminizes Giles’ heroism. Giles does not succeed in winning Grace as a wife in the end, and one possible reason for his failure may be that his heroism at times strays too close to the feminine for him to take up the dominant position in relation to the novel's heroine. The general development of the story is melancholy, and the ending of this novel unsatisfactory in any way but an artistic of view is only another evidence of Thomas Hardy's expressive methods. The good man suffers; the bad man not only prospers, but to make matters worse, this work shows signs of amendment without having been adequately punished. In this novel the woodlands as a rule show many problems of the community in many points of view as a process of the living of the residents. This paper proves incompatible contradictory aspects between community spirit and individuality related to Giles’s heroism, and I can see that the gap between the social class and gender representing the relations of the power located in the heart of the desire in the novel, finally functions heroism as a main feminizing cause. In this paper Giles shows pure and conscientious delicacy at that time and his undecorated heroism ends up in feminization, and results in romantic and pitiful main character.
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