Two Men in Black at Two Irelands’ Wake - Reviving the Pre-Christian Ireland in Ulysses

• 영문명: Two Men in Black at Two Irelands’ Wake
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Hye Ryoung Kil(길혜령)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제85호, 15~34쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

  Stephen and Bloom, both in black, mourn the death of two different Irelands: the Catholic and the pre-Christian Irelands. The Catholic Ireland has died as Stephen rejects the faith or the church of his dead mother, who represents the Catholic Ireland under English rule. On the other hand, the pre-Christian, pagan Ireland has long been dead since the double colonization of Ireland by the Roman Church and the English. The death of the pagan Ireland is signified by the dead marriage between Bloom, who embodies the mythic lord of Ireland, and Molly, who personifies the goddess of Ireland. Stephen, as the artist of the Catholic Ireland, can neither completely deny the Catholic identity of the country by burying the dead, nor approve the identity by awakening the dead. In contrast, Bloom, the Jewish-Irish ad-canvasser, is capable of viewing the defunct marriage in a new perspective and bringing it to life, that is, reviving the pre-Christian Ireland.

키워드

Catholic Ireland Joyce Leopold Bloom pre-Christian Ireland Stephen Dedalus Ulysses