편집증에서 판단중지로:『제49호 품목의 경매』를 근거로
From Paranoia to Suspension of Judgment: Based on The Crying of Lot 49
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This paper examines the change and growth of Oedipa Maas, the heroine of The Crying of Lot 49, from paranoia to suspension of judgment. She is a 28-year-old middle-class Republican Party member whose paranoia is exhibited by two symptoms. One is the illusion that she is incarcerated in a tower and should be delivered from confinement not by her own efforts but by an upper class man's help. The other is her own biased and dogmatic judgment on others and the world. As a result of her self-centered consciousness that limits her capacity to care for and love others, she is living a meaningless, sterile, inanimate, dependent and isolated life. However, she begins to escape from paranoia and change herself after receiving the news that she was appointed as the executer of the will of her former lover, a California real estate mogul. The execution of his will leads her to a search for the Tristero, a underground postal network through which lower class people communicate with each other on interpersonal care and love. The Tristero awakens her to the importance of independence and love in life, as well as the futility of search and judgment. This awakening spontaneously enables her pure and coexistent consciousness to intrude into the self-centered and biased one. This intrusion signifies this novel’s anarchist miracle. At last, she changes and grows into a woman who can see and receive others and the world as they are, and suspend judgment.
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This paper examines the change and growth of Oedipa Maas, the heroine of The Crying of Lot 49, from paranoia to suspension of judgment. She is a 28-year-old middle-class Republican Party member whose paranoia is exhibited by two symptoms. One is the illusion that she is incarcerated in a tower and should be delivered from confinement not by her own efforts but by an upper class man's help. The other is her own biased and dogmatic judgment on others and the world. As a result of her self-centered consciousness that limits her capacity to care for and love others, she is living a meaningless, sterile, inanimate, dependent and isolated life. However, she begins to escape from paranoia and change herself after receiving the news that she was appointed as the executer of the will of her former lover, a California real estate mogul. The execution of his will leads her to a search for the Tristero, a underground postal network through which lower class people communicate with each other on interpersonal care and love. The Tristero awakens her to the importance of independence and love in life, as well as the futility of search and judgment. This awakening spontaneously enables her pure and coexistent consciousness to intrude into the self-centered and biased one. This intrusion signifies this novel’s anarchist miracle. At last, she changes and grows into a woman who can see and receive others and the world as they are, and suspend judgment.
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