『한여름 밤의 꿈』에 나타난 숲의 순환구조 = The Circulation Structure of the Forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this article is to study the circulation structure of the forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream. This drama can be divided into three parts based on the process of the main characters' spatial movement.
First, the palace in Athens is a confusing world filled with serious conflict and discord between the old generation and the youth. The elders insist that the youth obey the traditional laws of Athens, but the young lovers refuse to submit themselves to the principles of cold reason and law. Instead, they require a natural world of love. The young lovers confronting the opposing forces of parents and establishing traditions depart from Athens and escape into the forest to achieve their love.
Second, the forest can be explained as the space where playfulness, festivity and freedom are realized. The forest is the world fairies and dream. Four lovers come to reveal their nature by the play of Puck, and the complications between purity and passion within themselves. Bottom, who's head is transformed into that of an ass, falls in lovewith Titania, queen of the fairies. In the forest the characters go through a developmental transition in which the mature through their difficulties, gain wisdom through folly, order through chaos, and concord through discords.
They finally return to the palace which has become harmonious. They overcome their ordeal to find true love and get married. The wedding ceremony is not only the fulfillment of individual love, but the incorporation of the individual into society.
The circulation structure of the forest consists of an initial stage of separation, a transitional stage, and the stage of incorporation. The characters depart Athens, gain something through their experiences in a forest and then return to Athens after being awoken from a dream.
Through the circulation structure of three stages, we can sketch the outline of Shakespearean comic strategies. His play moves from separation to reunion for the goal of social harmony, and from self-ignorance to knowledge for the goal of individual harmony, recognition. Shakespeare presents his comic vision of harmony and reconciliation, dramatizing the universal aspects of human life through the circulation structure in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. 궁정의 현실과 숲으로의 도피
• Ⅲ. 변화의 공간으로서의 숲
• Ⅳ. 현실의 변화와 희극적 결말
• Ⅴ. 결론