『에드워드 2세』에 나타난 모순과 변증법

• 영문명: Contradiction and Dialectics in Edward II
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 김태영(Taeyoung Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』제157호, 91~109쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.06.30

국문 초록

This paper reinterprets Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II through the lens of Hegelian dialectics, examining the drastic tension between passion and reason not as a moral opposition to be resolved, but as a philosophical contradiction to be endured. The play represents a dialectical structure in which Edward’s sovereign passion corresponds to a thesis, met by the nobles’ rational resistance as its antithesis. However, the rational opposition gradually reveals its own contradictions and collapses into the very destructive logic it seeks to oppose, thereby performing what Hegel would describe as the negation of the negation. Rather than culminating in a unified synthesis, the play offers a dual form of resolution. On one level, the narrative closure is marked by the accession of Edward III to the throne, whose decisive actions suggest the possibility of restored political order and moral judgment. On a deeper level, however, the play stages a performative dialectic in which the audience is led to reflect on the instability of ethical categories, the unreliability of reason, and the irreducible force of human emotion. Through characters such as Kent, Isabella, and Mortimer, the play generates a reflective space in which emotional ambivalence and ethical uncertainty resist final closure. In this way, Edward II becomes a philosophical tragedy that suspends moral judgment in favor of dialectical experience—where synthesis does not occur within the dramatic culmination itself, but is instead displaced into the audience’s reflective consciousness.

키워드

크리스토퍼 말로 『에드워드 2세』 헤겔의 변증법 욕망 이성 모순 Christopher Marlowe Edward II Hegelian dialectics passion reason contradiction