아깟담껑 라피팟의 『사춘기』에 나타난 충돌과 창발

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the phenomena of conflicts and emergence that occur between two sisters who fall in love with the same men, as depicted in Momchao Akatdamkoeng Raphiphat’s “Adolescence.” In accordance with Thai customs, the two sisters marry wealthy, older men, who could forgive their father’s debts, in marriages arranged by their father. The two sisters, however, harbour a sense of emotional strain from having been denied the opportunity to go through fervent adolescence.BR The two sisters eventually come to love the same men but exhibit different phenomena not identical ones even though they are related by blood through their clashes and competitive rivalry to earn their affections. The younger sister sees men as nothing more than objects of her amusement, and therefore does not care even after the death of a man whose love is genuine, nor is she concerned about possibly corrupting an adolescent boy. By contrast, the older sister becomes the confidant of a man with whom she falls in love, and mentor to the young man to allow him to grow as a morally upstanding person with the capacity to build an ordinary family, which is demonstrative of the concept of noblesse oblige on her part.