『캐럽 윌리엄즈』에 나타난 이데올로기의 영향과 지배
Tyranny and Influence of Ideology in Caleb Williams
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Critics who interpret Caleb Williams as a political novel try to trace in this novel the ideas manifested in Godwin's political writing, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, while justifying this critical approach by Godwin's statement that this novel was written in the same tone and mood in which he wrote Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Critics, however, ignore the fact that Caleb Williams is not a political propaganda which embodies Godwin's political ideas, but a novel created by Godwin the novelist. In short, Godwin in this novel tried to show the tyranny and influence of ideology on a society and individuals by delineating “things passing in the moral world” and giving “a general review of the modes of domestic and unrecorded despotism”, instead of maintaining his political arguments. If seen in this way, the ending of this novel where Caleb condemns himself as the murderer of Falkland who victimizes Caleb, is understandable though its message seem contradictory to Godwin's political arguments in Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, because Caleb is so much influenced by the aristocratic ideology manifested in Romance literature that he comes to regard himself as a criminal who destroys or subverts the myth established by the ideology. There is, however, one more important reason why Caleb cannot blame Falkland. Caleb realizes that Falkland, like himself, is also the victim of the ideology which demands Falkland should maintain his reputation or semblance of honor by any means. This fact implies that we are victimized not by any particular individual, but by the ideology whose tyranny “intrudes itself into every rank of society”.
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Critics who interpret Caleb Williams as a political novel try to trace in this novel the ideas manifested in Godwin's political writing, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, while justifying this critical approach by Godwin's statement that this novel was written in the same tone and mood in which he wrote Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. Critics, however, ignore the fact that Caleb Williams is not a political propaganda which embodies Godwin's political ideas, but a novel created by Godwin the novelist. In short, Godwin in this novel tried to show the tyranny and influence of ideology on a society and individuals by delineating “things passing in the moral world” and giving “a general review of the modes of domestic and unrecorded despotism”, instead of maintaining his political arguments. If seen in this way, the ending of this novel where Caleb condemns himself as the murderer of Falkland who victimizes Caleb, is understandable though its message seem contradictory to Godwin's political arguments in Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, because Caleb is so much influenced by the aristocratic ideology manifested in Romance literature that he comes to regard himself as a criminal who destroys or subverts the myth established by the ideology. There is, however, one more important reason why Caleb cannot blame Falkland. Caleb realizes that Falkland, like himself, is also the victim of the ideology which demands Falkland should maintain his reputation or semblance of honor by any means. This fact implies that we are victimized not by any particular individual, but by the ideology whose tyranny “intrudes itself into every rank of society”.
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