교사 헤드스똔 성공과 좌절: 디킨즈의 <우리 서로의 친구> = Headstone's and Failure in Our Mutual friend

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Dickens's last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend presents an interesting teacher figure named Bradley Headstone. While other teachers in Dickens's previous works are largely seen through the eyes of pupils and rarely outside the classroom, i.e., do not exist in their own right, he stands as a whole human being. His character is deeply affected by the fact that he comes from "a pauper lad" and succeeds as "a highly certificated stipendiary schoolmaster." His training and practice as a new type of teacher includes the formation of the fixed identity, or "normalized subject," which serves as a unit of the capitalist production. However, his success as a teacher leads to his failure. To rise in the scale of society, he should repress his natural energy or vitality, and foster the instrumental reason or narrow rationality as expected by the existing social order. His restrained energy breaks loose in the form of romantic love towards Lizzie, or violent action following the frustration of that love. This "return of the repressed" shows that his initial hope for respectability is brittle and groundless, for it denotes the "slave morality" which directs the "value-positing eye" ever to the outside, and turns to the approval of others for his existence. Headstone's essential tragedy lies in the fact that the grounds of his success are also those of his failure, and this comprises the paradox and contradiction of the modern world.

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