아리스토텔레스의 비극 관점에서 『더버빌가의 테스』 읽기

Abstract

Reading Tess of the D’urbervilles in Aristotle’s Perspective on Tragedy. The New Studies of English Language & Literature 83 (2022): 25-44. Aristotle believed that good drama should aim to improve the audience morally and ethically. He presented rich examples of how special types of people react to specific situations in his Poetics. In order to raise the audience’s response to the maximum, the actual elements of the play were selected and the effective structure and operation of techniques were explained. The tragedy of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles was discussed mainly with the effect of social circumstances on the protagonist. If we look at the tragic nature of Tess of D’urbervilles, we can find a significant similarity with the attitude of Aristotle, who tried to find order in life through death. In this paper, I attempted to read Tess’s tragic elements in comparison with Aristotle’s tragic perspective. Rather than tragedies caused by external circumstances, I tried to find clues about the transmission of ancient tragedies of Thomas Hardy by focusing on the flaws or mistakes of Tess’s individual.