『트로일러스와 크리세이다』—욕망과 죽음
Troilus and Criseyde: Desire and Death
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Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is a tale of love framed by an overarching pattern of death, set in the war-torn and doomed Troy, from which the lovers cannot separate their fate. Compared with Boccaccio’s poem, the attention paid to death in Chaucer’s version underlies his complex treatment of love. Above all, the language of death in Chaucer’s poem provides the thread from which the entangled web of love is woven. Death together with desire pervades the language and rhetoric of the poem, prominent not only in the courtly love tropes, but also in the characters’ asides and speeches. The prominence of these two concepts, desire and death, seem to be central to the various issues that the poem contains explicitly and implicitly. That is, two concepts are the basis for the breadth and depth of Chaucer’s examination of love in light of the social and political realities of late fourteenth century England. The language of death in Chaucer’s poem reflects the powerful influence on his imagination. With the devastation wrought by the plague and the changing fortunes of England in the war with France, Chaucer’s world was once saturated in death, and one that could amply parallel the turn from prosperity to downfall. In particular, Chaucer’s poem is suffused with the language of contagion and death in connection with desire. Troilus’s lovesickness mimics the progress of a viral infection. Once breached, his body performs its newly compromised identity through fever, loss of appetite, and physical disintegration. On the other hand, Chaucer depicts Boccaccio’s conventional portrait of Criseyde into a elaborate paramour of a pathogen. She is characterized as the contaminant that infects male hero. In addition, Criseyde is cast as sole earthly cure of illness that Troilus suffers from. In spite of Criseyde’s role as nurturer and healer, Troilus longs for his own death and feels death clutching his heart. Finally, Troilus’s love toward Criseyde is doomed to death.
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Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is a tale of love framed by an overarching pattern of death, set in the war-torn and doomed Troy, from which the lovers cannot separate their fate. Compared with Boccaccio’s poem, the attention paid to death in Chaucer’s version underlies his complex treatment of love. Above all, the language of death in Chaucer’s poem provides the thread from which the entangled web of love is woven. Death together with desire pervades the language and rhetoric of the poem, prominent not only in the courtly love tropes, but also in the characters’ asides and speeches. The prominence of these two concepts, desire and death, seem to be central to the various issues that the poem contains explicitly and implicitly. That is, two concepts are the basis for the breadth and depth of Chaucer’s examination of love in light of the social and political realities of late fourteenth century England. The language of death in Chaucer’s poem reflects the powerful influence on his imagination. With the devastation wrought by the plague and the changing fortunes of England in the war with France, Chaucer’s world was once saturated in death, and one that could amply parallel the turn from prosperity to downfall. In particular, Chaucer’s poem is suffused with the language of contagion and death in connection with desire. Troilus’s lovesickness mimics the progress of a viral infection. Once breached, his body performs its newly compromised identity through fever, loss of appetite, and physical disintegration. On the other hand, Chaucer depicts Boccaccio’s conventional portrait of Criseyde into a elaborate paramour of a pathogen. She is characterized as the contaminant that infects male hero. In addition, Criseyde is cast as sole earthly cure of illness that Troilus suffers from. In spite of Criseyde’s role as nurturer and healer, Troilus longs for his own death and feels death clutching his heart. Finally, Troilus’s love toward Criseyde is doomed to death.
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