『マンク』における秩序と反秩序 : <運命の女> のテーマとイギリス・ロマン主義におけるその顕現
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The Monk (1796) is Matthew Gregory Lewis's magnum opus, which demonstrates a curious thematic structure constituted by twofold storlylines: Ambrosio plot and Raymond plot. The first one follows a Spanish friar's moral degeneration caused by Matilda who seduces him as a fatal woman in the disguise as Rosario. a voung male novice in the Convent of St. Clar. The second one portrays the love affair and mysterious adventures of Raymond, a Spanish noble youth. The main feature of the second plot, I have shown, consists in Raymond's and his friends' efforts to reveal Ambrosio's wickedness and restore onece corrupted Madrid to its former order. I have analyzed how Matilda functions as a main motivating power which makes the story of The Monk unfold and brings about Ambrosio's tragic punishment in the end. I have also approached the question why the theme of the Femme Fatale was so popular in this age of gothic revival, with the assistance of the idea of the sublime provided by Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). Lewis's biographical facts, especially his relations with his mother. worked as further evidence for my assertion that he wrote this narrative mainly for his own salvation from the tortuous situation caused by ennui in the Hague. Although the femme fatal motif fulfills its direct role for the story development. I have asserted, the latent power working under this literary convention must be the psychology of the sublime. l have examined connections between some of the most famous gothic novels and three romantic poems: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'(1798). Lord Byron's Manfred (1818) and John Keats's 'La Blle Dame sans Merc'(1820) in terms of the way the fatal woman is depicted in each of them. My conclusion is that while gothic novels are normally described in such a way that the supernatural elements including the fatal woman theme are renounced after all, romantic poetry sustains some supernatural influences even after the fatal woman has disappeared forever.
- 1997-11-10
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