『적절한 결혼』에 나타난 부적절한 결혼의 양상
Improper aspects of a marriage in A Proper Marriage
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Doris Lessing's A Proper Marriage(1954) depicts Martha's quest through marriage, maternity and political activity. Marriage is perilous from its beginning, so the word "proper" in the book title seems ironical. This novel investigates the attitude of Martha Quest who refuses a proper wife's and mother's traditional role society requires with delicacy. Also it deals with patriarchal system, pregnancy, childbirth, child care, and female identity based on biological, social, and psychological perspectives. Martha is frustrated by the role of a wife and mother. She is afraid that she might repeat her mother's terrible marriage life. Doris Lessing describes the negative and repetitive marriage life using the imagery of a wedding ring, nets, cages, and traps. In her early marriage, Martha as a wife becomes passive and lives a middle-class bourgeois life she despised. But sometimes she feels guilty and resistant about the fact that she has adapted so well to this life, in which Martha's possibility of development is revealed. She unexpectedly becomes pregnant. Biological change of her body due to pregnancy divides Martha by the root. Lessing also portrays pangs and scenes of childbirth physically and psychologically in detail. Caroline, Martha's daughter, was born the day before World War II broke out. Martha has "contests of will" with her daughter by herself. Martha regrets her lack of will, and feels helpless and guilty about not being a good mother. Emotional and physical burden of child care is related to woman's loss of freedom in everyday life. Negative relationship with Mrs. May Quest, her mother, affects the relationship with her own child destructively. She promises that she won't put any pressure on her daughter. Lessing depicts marriage and maternity as a system shackle females' identity and freedom. During her child care, she meets a British airman, who advises her to face "nice change". Martha starts to read newspapers, frees herself from personal problems, and searches social consciousness through political meetings. She discovers glorious outline of a view of life she had not suspected from communism. She draws a Utopian society from communism and decides to leave her marriage and daughter. Martha wants to live a newer and larger life away from closure and imprisonment of marriage and maternity. Using the patterns of affirmation and denial, success and failure, and engagement and disillusionment, Lessing portrays Martha's quest positively, in which Martha is getting her growth and improvement slowly.
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Doris Lessing's A Proper Marriage(1954) depicts Martha's quest through marriage, maternity and political activity. Marriage is perilous from its beginning, so the word "proper" in the book title seems ironical. This novel investigates the attitude of Martha Quest who refuses a proper wife's and mother's traditional role society requires with delicacy. Also it deals with patriarchal system, pregnancy, childbirth, child care, and female identity based on biological, social, and psychological perspectives. Martha is frustrated by the role of a wife and mother. She is afraid that she might repeat her mother's terrible marriage life. Doris Lessing describes the negative and repetitive marriage life using the imagery of a wedding ring, nets, cages, and traps. In her early marriage, Martha as a wife becomes passive and lives a middle-class bourgeois life she despised. But sometimes she feels guilty and resistant about the fact that she has adapted so well to this life, in which Martha's possibility of development is revealed. She unexpectedly becomes pregnant. Biological change of her body due to pregnancy divides Martha by the root. Lessing also portrays pangs and scenes of childbirth physically and psychologically in detail. Caroline, Martha's daughter, was born the day before World War II broke out. Martha has "contests of will" with her daughter by herself. Martha regrets her lack of will, and feels helpless and guilty about not being a good mother. Emotional and physical burden of child care is related to woman's loss of freedom in everyday life. Negative relationship with Mrs. May Quest, her mother, affects the relationship with her own child destructively. She promises that she won't put any pressure on her daughter. Lessing depicts marriage and maternity as a system shackle females' identity and freedom. During her child care, she meets a British airman, who advises her to face "nice change". Martha starts to read newspapers, frees herself from personal problems, and searches social consciousness through political meetings. She discovers glorious outline of a view of life she had not suspected from communism. She draws a Utopian society from communism and decides to leave her marriage and daughter. Martha wants to live a newer and larger life away from closure and imprisonment of marriage and maternity. Using the patterns of affirmation and denial, success and failure, and engagement and disillusionment, Lessing portrays Martha's quest positively, in which Martha is getting her growth and improvement slowly.
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