『에블린』의 자연주의적 관점 = Eveline: A Naturalist Aspect

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate a naturalist aspect of Eveline; how her paralysis, desire, and frustration are determined by her milieux. Eveline has been paralysed by her environments: Ireland`s and her family`s economic destitution, her father`s incompetence, the Irish socio-ideological conception represented by her mother`s and St. Mary`s promises, But she recognizes the reality of her and her mother`s lives. From this recognition, she makes a resolution to escape from her life to a new world which will give her a new happy life. Her desire to escape is formulated by many images: Melbourne, Buenos Ayres, an opera The Bohemian Girl, a song The lass that loves a sailor, and Frark himself. All these are conceived by Eveline as a land of opportunity, a representation of secape, and her future happy life. But she cannot accomplish her desire because of the pressure of her milies: she internalized the socio-ideological climate of the time. Eveline refuses to follow her mother`s life, because she sees it as a life of commonplace sacrifice closing in final craziness, and realized fear at what she perceives as she dose follow her mother`s life. But, according to her mother`s insistent cry, Dereaun Seraun(the end of pleasure is pain, Tindall 22), if she doesn`t keep her promise to keep the home togeter as long as she could, she will be punished. There`s another promise given to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque by Christ. It implies that if she denies suffering from her life, she will be punished. So she fears for her life, freedom, and happiness in her future married life. In an impulse of terror represented by her mother`s life, Eveline makes a resolution to escape from her life. However, in a more repressive impulse of terror represented by the socio-ideological concept, she rejects her happy life of the future and continues to live a paralysed lkfe like a helpless animal. From the point of view that the heroine`s fate is determined by her milieux, Eveline could be called a naturalist story. It could be said that it was to show Dubliners their paralysed lives more vividly and scrupulously that Joyce wrote the story Eveline from a naturalistperspective.