여성에 대한 폭력성과 주체화를 위한 매듭짓기: 수잔 글래스펠의『사소한 것들』과 「그녀의 동료 배심원들」

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the violence toward Woman and read “knot it” in the text as a knot for subjectivation through Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and “A Jury of Her Peers.” Glaspell uses an important device in the two texts: the female protagonist’s absence. This paper sees the woman’s absence as Woman having double meanings. First, Woman means the absent woman that is forced to be silent and live as an absent other in the patriarchal society. Second, Woman is Jacques Lacan’s assertion that Woman does not exist. It means that there is no signifier of/for Woman. In other words, because the place of woman’s signifier is empty and Woman is also related to S(), the signification could be various as a open set. Many other papers have read that Mrs. Wright killed her husband Mr. Wright. They say that Mrs Hale and Mrs Peters found and concealed the murder evidence from the trifles that men ignored because they think that Mr. Wright twisted the neck of her bird and then Mrs Wright knotted him with a rope. But Mrs Hale and Mrs Peters’s concealment is both to hide their imaginary murder with a phallic way and recognize her murder. Through Mrs Wright’s absence, nevertheless, women can knot for subjectivation . The death of the bird itself can be read as a knot for subjectivation. In conclusion, “knot it” in the text does not symbolize knotting the neck of Mr. Wright, but knotting for women’s subjectivation.