몰 플란더즈와 레베카 샾의 비교 분석 = Moll Flanders and Rebecca Sharp: An Analysis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Despite the obvious truth that the social and personal position of women in the past was subordinate to that of men, the literary treatment of women has often conveyed rathet different sense of their role in society. In as early literary works as in Chaucer`s poems, for example, one sees an exceptional woman character 10 the vivid and willful portrait of the Wife of Bath In Shakespeare the range of female charactersis great and attitude reflected is as varied as life itself. The novel, ever since its rise 10 the eighteenth century, has served as the main vehicle for projecting the attitude toward women and women`s role in society, even though, in most cases, the writer has been masculine. of the various literary treatments of women one might say that there is a tradition gone back to Chaucer, in which a woman character is presented as thc life-force itself, irrepressible, and full of an almost excessive gusto for experience. The aim of this paper is to analyze two such female characters - Moll Flanders and Rebecca Sharp - paying attention to some of their basic similarities, but also recognizing the differences that necessarily exist because of the view points of the authors who created them, the historical periods in which they onginated and the authors` attitudes toward their heroines.