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『지킬박사와 하이드씨의 기이한 사례』: 텍스트의 미결정성과 정치적 보수성
송승철 영미문학연구회 2012 영미문학연구 Vol.23 No.-
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written in the form of what was then called ‘the Christmas crawler,’ was aimed at the mass literature market beginning to expand at that time. The tale gained an enormous commercial success, and has been repeatedly adapted in a variety of popular genre since its publication. Now we seem to believe that we know it without reading it at all, though almost all adaptations have tended to warp the authorial intentions or overemphasize one aspect of the tale, that is, the sensational theme of the prevalent sexual suppression at the late Victorian period. Indeed, the real merit of the tale is a successful combination of the sensational theme with the ethical and theological issues. Its main driving force transpires from a detective novel technique that the real identity or meaning of Hyde has been hinted and then denied again and again by the conflicts and contradictions between narrators or characters, so that the continual production of meaning does not stop even at the end of the story. At the same time, the tale brings some serious ethical and theological issues within the form of the detective novel, which touches some serious social issues of the time including moral hypocrisy or the validity of the then positivist scientific pursuit. However, this serious authorial efforts cannot go a long way due to its inbuilt weaknesses. For example, Hyde is given no opportunity to the end to speak out its inner self. Or the narrator Utterson, though austere, tolerant, and pious, reveals many limitations when he places priority on the personal relationship before the public values. As a result, though Stevenson shows technical virtuosity in many points, the indeterminacy that drives on the reader to be indulged in it fails to bring in or further philosophical depth of some kind to it. Instead, inducing readers towards the sensational impact of the Jekyll-Hyde relation, it helps make hardly visible the moral weaknesses of Jekyll’s class-faction as well as helps readers to tacitly support Jekyll’s ill-fated efforts to exclude Hyde from his consciousness.