A Midsummer Night's Dream에 나타난 변신과 initiation 주제 고찰 = A study on Transformation and initiation in A Midsummer night's Dream

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This thesis is an analysis about initiation of the characters in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespear through the process-departure, initiationand return-of experience the characters depart from Athens and esperience as a monster figuratively or actually in a forest. Four lovers come to reveal their nature by the play of Puck, and the complications between purity and passion of themselves. Bottom who is transformed to assto-man also fall in love with Titania, Queen of fairy.
The characters show various and different reactions through the experiences revealing their animal-like character as it is. While the four lovers wander about as losing their own identities in the confusions and complication, Bottom becomes to be a man of wisdom. As Puck awakens them, they except Bottom do not remember about their experiences. The only person that remembers right and obviously is Bottom.
They depart Athens (departure), get something through experience in a forest(initiation) and return to Athens after being awake from a dream (return). Among them, only Bottom reach to the real initiation, and we can find the wisdom of his well by seeing him play the role of Pyramus in the play of Thisby and Pyramus. though they are watching themselves through the play, they wait their future without "consciousness". That is the point the author criticize, the state of "without consciousness", and he tells us that the transformation by true initiation is the only and best way for us to live this mysterious and unknowable world.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ.서론
• Ⅱ.Monster로의 변신
• 1.네명의 연인들의 경우
• 2.Bottom의 경우
• Ⅲ.진정한 자아로의 변신
• Ⅳ.결론