모리 오가이(森鷗外)의 독일 3부작에 관한 고찰

Abstract

This article analyzes Moriogai’s Trilogy. 『Maihime』is a story about an intellectual who finally realizes his own ego and undergoes internal conflicts in achieving his true ego. 『Maihime』proposes an important issue on modern literature of Japan. Toyotaro Ota in 『Maihime』realizes a true ego in an atmosphere of freedom of Germany. But his true ego is destroyed by external conditions. The process of self-reliance of Kose, on 『Utakatanoki』, is done through the act of aesthetic creation, being part of pure self-realization. 『Fumizukai』deals with aristocratic marriage and tells the internal agony of princess Ida who goes against the aristocratic marriage. Kobayashi, who saves Ida from her marriage, shows that people in Japan also still sticks to the old custom like in Germany, and he criticizes the vestige of feudal society. 『Maihime』and 『Utakatanoki』describe that the characters’ own features were interupted by something in a fatalistic way, but in 『Fumizukai』, the character finally achieves his own ego by himself with his own will.