조셉 콘라드의 정신외상과 여성관 = Joseph Conrad`s Trauma and His View of Women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Joseph Conrad's attitude towards women is so complex that it often eludes and resists any simple categorization. There are some elements, on the one hand, that lead one to suspect that Conrad may have been a misogynist. Marlow's misogyny in Chance may have something to do with Conrad's own; the former (who appears in "Youth", Heart of Darkness, Lard Jim, and Chance), perhaps the most important character in Conrad's fictional world, is never reluctant in showing his misogyny: he thinks that women are devoid of decency, reasonable cautiousness and honour. Conrad, on the other, idealizes women to the extent that some women appear to be, to use Susan Brodie's words, "vehicle for the enlightenment of [men], introducing them to the realm of emotional warmth and responsiveness in which life's mysteries and treasures may be discovered."
This study tries to resolve Conrad's paradoxical view of women by scrutinizing female characters in the major novels in terms of Conrad's biographical background such as a traumatic early loss of his mother. The study will bring up and make use of some feminist issues like Beauvoir's "second sex" and hopefully clarify Conrad's view of women.