「おしゃべり」の効用 : 『船出』におけるレイチェルの場合
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Of special interest to Virginia Woolf is 'Silence,' or 'the things people don't say,' the innermost feelings kept privately concealed. Also she realizes the difficult situation that female expressiveness faces. In one of her book reviews in 1905 and a short story "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn" (1906), Woolf shows both men and women devalue women's experiences and feelings. Female speech, because of this devaluation, has been considered as 'a chattering and garrulous-mere talk.' Woolf believes, however, what women really are is revealing itself in their 'chatterings.' This is why, in The Voyage Out, she dared to make the heroine break the silence and talk about what she feels. This paper is an attempt to consider what effects the heroine's chattering has on the male hearers in The Voyage Out, focusing on the scenes where Rachel Vinrace has a chance to talk alone with Richard Dalloway (Chap.4) and with Terence Hewet (Chap. 16). After briefly discussing the essay and the short story mentioned above, I examine the conflicts between the heroine and the male characters, and how Rachel gradually overcomes her own hesitation to tell her story and begins to talk freely. Finally, Rachel comes to express in words her joy and freedom of being a woman. One of the most crucial moments in the novel is when she describes her vision of herself as a free and self-subsistent being like "the wind or the sea." The text reveals that when Rachel talks it is an undeniable truth, however her statement is called "nonsense" by Terence. Woolf knows the difficulties that female speech has faced, but she believes in the value of women's Voice' and she tries to show this in this scene.
- 日本ヴァージニア・ウルフ協会の論文
- 1990-09-30
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