『겨울 이야기』에 나타난 모성의 상실과 복원

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Winter's Tale discloses the pursuit of the masculine fears that underscore patriarchy's obsession with the uncontrollability of women's sexuality. Leontes, who suffers from the sort of projective paranoid jealousy, is the most paranoid protagonist in Shakespeare, at least in the first part of the play. His psyche is presented as the locus of the disease, for his jealousy is self-created without any psychological motivation or development. And his paranoia registers the fears of a patriarchal society about the power of women, exemplified in female eloquence as well.
Although Hermione, as the daughter of a king, the wife of a king, and the mother of a prince, appears to be the most powerful woman in her society, she can be so easily unqueened, thrown into prison, and threatened with death. Her criminality was on the whole defined in terms of adultery, petty treason, bastardy, infanticide, scolding, and witchcraft. Hermione, however, acquires increased moral authority even while she suffers losses as a result of masculine defamations in the play, while Leontes becomes completely isolated in a dead world.
The structure of the play presents the stage as empowering to the female characters-Hemione, Paulina, Perdita. Especially the play makes use of the myth of Proserpina to explore female sexuality and the bond of mother and daughter and to open up a space for the female narrative. Through Hermione, Shakespeare achieves the recuperation of the maternal body to celebrate the recovery of the mother whose blessing is to be found in its restorative function in binding the courtly community together.
During the statue scene, Hermione becomes a combination of miracle and a perfect object, but her courtly presence has shifted from a verbal to a visual register. In putting forward this new ideal, the play mystifies female courtliness by locating it in the spectacle when the female body takes center stage rather than in words. A reconfiguration of courtly femininity serves to another social hierarchies in the fashioning of a benign patriarchy after undergoing a series of challenges and crises. The power of maternity in the play is reconstructed through its loss, but its ultimate purpose is to renew and recover social value and social stability oriented around father power. "Old wives' tales" retell the stories of patriarchy, when the menace of female sexuality and speech diminishes.