The Tinker's Weddingの意味するもの : 二つの世界の矛盾と衝突(岸英司名誉教授追悼記念号)

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The community of Wicklow, which Synge used to often visit, was divided into three groups : the sheep-farmers, who lived in the remote mountain area and grazed their stock on the common land of the hills ; the agricultural laborers, who lived in the villages down in the valleys ; and the vagrants, tramps, tinkers, and traveling groups. They make up a shifting third estate. Among this group, the tinkers were always genuine outcasts, and they were resented by the small farmers. First, I want to describe the differences between the tramps and the tinkers, and then the tinkers' way of life and the priest's world. The tinkers represent the marginal, itinerant, disestablished way of life, while the priest holds the well-defined, well-established social position. It is impossible to join the two worlds. The nature of the tinkers cannot be accepted within the orthodox world, and the priest's world cannot be reconciled with that of the tinkers. They inevitably conflict each other. In this thesis I want to discuss in detail the conflict and the tension produced by the two worlds. And Finally I want to consider the dramatic power of the play and the comic effect produced by the impossibility to join the two worlds in this play.
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