「유순한 소년」: 역사적인 맥락에서 본 청교도 공동체의 변화
“The Gentle Boy”: The Inevitable Change of the Puritan Community in the Historical Transition
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This paper attempts to explore Puritans and Puritan communities represented in “The Gentle Boy” in its actual historical context. Not only as a critic to the contemporary tendency of distorting Puritan forefathers, but also as a historical romancer, Hawthorne criticizes Puritans’ sense of the elect and portrays a Puritan community as focusing on their ambivalent and dynamic characteristics distinguished in the context of community. Beginning with the lengthy historical introduction, Hawthorne draws our attention to the specific historical events, spiritual declension, rigorous exclusiveness and Quaker persecution, which are all interrelated and embodied in the second generation of Puritans. “The Gentle Boy” shows the Puritan’s unity in hating and persecuting the Quaker boy, Ilbrahim. Focusing on the interaction between the members and Ilbrahim, Hawthorne demonstrates the conflict, repression and possibility of change of the community. When the young, fragile and unprotected boy enters the Puritan community, the community members project their uncertainty of faith and fear to Ilbrahim. Through the community members’ irrational persecution to Ilbrahim, Hawthorne illustrates that Puritans’ calling as God’s chosen people, sense of the elect and their piety become nominal and weak coming to the second generation of Puritans. Through this analysis, Hawthorne reveals the complicated interconnection of spiritual declension and collective exclusiveness, and the change of Puritanism from religious doctrine to civil religion.
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This paper attempts to explore Puritans and Puritan communities represented in “The Gentle Boy” in its actual historical context. Not only as a critic to the contemporary tendency of distorting Puritan forefathers, but also as a historical romancer, Hawthorne criticizes Puritans’ sense of the elect and portrays a Puritan community as focusing on their ambivalent and dynamic characteristics distinguished in the context of community. Beginning with the lengthy historical introduction, Hawthorne draws our attention to the specific historical events, spiritual declension, rigorous exclusiveness and Quaker persecution, which are all interrelated and embodied in the second generation of Puritans. “The Gentle Boy” shows the Puritan’s unity in hating and persecuting the Quaker boy, Ilbrahim. Focusing on the interaction between the members and Ilbrahim, Hawthorne demonstrates the conflict, repression and possibility of change of the community. When the young, fragile and unprotected boy enters the Puritan community, the community members project their uncertainty of faith and fear to Ilbrahim. Through the community members’ irrational persecution to Ilbrahim, Hawthorne illustrates that Puritans’ calling as God’s chosen people, sense of the elect and their piety become nominal and weak coming to the second generation of Puritans. Through this analysis, Hawthorne reveals the complicated interconnection of spiritual declension and collective exclusiveness, and the change of Puritanism from religious doctrine to civil religion.
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