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- 학술저널
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- 발행연도
- 2003.8
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- 269 - 294 (26page)
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From a feminist point of view, idealized female characters in male authors' works do not show "real" women who have desires and needs. Idealized female characters are the result of male writers' masculine perspectives and a projection of male writers' or men's desires, and reflect a fictitious image men fake in their mind. Eugene O'Neill, as a canonical writer, is one of the male authors who represent a distorted image of women and reinforce a male-centered ideology by idealizing their female characters. In O'Neill's plays, there are quite a few male characters called "the misbegotten" who need a woman as "a mirror" possessing power, identity and autonomy to enlarge them. The female characters playing the role of the "Earth Mother" or the "Madonna" represent the female stereotype O'Neill craved to create throughout his career. Among O'Neill's female characters, in particular, the most representative female character who has the image of an idealized goddess is the heroin, Josie Hogan, in A Moon for the Misbegotten.
O'Neill represents Josie to be a perfectly good woman like the "Earth Mother" or the "Madonna" in this play. However, her real nature is only as an oppressed woman in that she is forced to take on double roles: she is not married, but she has played the role of her brothers' mother; she is a virgin, but she has pretended to be a prostitute in order not to be sold as expensive goods, a man's wife, in a male-centered economic system; the dramatic setting that she is a virgin also makes a great contribution to the theme of the play; she desires Tyrone, but she should give up her sexual desire to play his substitute mother. Tyrone is the man who represents the patriarchy in which a woman is the "other" of man and is regarded only as either "a mother" or "a prostitute," so Josie is forced to take on the role of the magic mirror reflecting Tyrone's figure at twice his natural size so that she would not be treated as a prostitute and to redeem him from his guilt and his corrupted soul. Although the play illustrates she is portrayed as an idealized woman both physically and mentally, she is the "other" of man, one of the traditional females who sacrifice and devote themselves for men and give up their identity as an individual. That is, O'Neill's idealized woman only falls under a female stereotype in patriarchy however adroitly she is idealized and beautified in the play: an oppressed woman.
Traditional critics also help to make up a distorted image of women by idealizing a character of Josie as the "Earth Mother," the "Virgin Mary" and "the most successful benevolent heroine." As a result, both a canonical male author, O'Neill, and the critics with a male-centered ideology naturally establish a distorted view of women through their writings. Therefore, the readers need to read the female characters represented in male authors' works with the attitude of the "resisting reader" who rejects this mode of masculine attitude. Such an approach to the female characters of male writers will lead the readers to reexamine gender issues and the oppressive roles of women in male-centered patriarchal societies.
O'Neill represents Josie to be a perfectly good woman like the "Earth Mother" or the "Madonna" in this play. However, her real nature is only as an oppressed woman in that she is forced to take on double roles: she is not married, but she has played the role of her brothers' mother; she is a virgin, but she has pretended to be a prostitute in order not to be sold as expensive goods, a man's wife, in a male-centered economic system; the dramatic setting that she is a virgin also makes a great contribution to the theme of the play; she desires Tyrone, but she should give up her sexual desire to play his substitute mother. Tyrone is the man who represents the patriarchy in which a woman is the "other" of man and is regarded only as either "a mother" or "a prostitute," so Josie is forced to take on the role of the magic mirror reflecting Tyrone's figure at twice his natural size so that she would not be treated as a prostitute and to redeem him from his guilt and his corrupted soul. Although the play illustrates she is portrayed as an idealized woman both physically and mentally, she is the "other" of man, one of the traditional females who sacrifice and devote themselves for men and give up their identity as an individual. That is, O'Neill's idealized woman only falls under a female stereotype in patriarchy however adroitly she is idealized and beautified in the play: an oppressed woman.
Traditional critics also help to make up a distorted image of women by idealizing a character of Josie as the "Earth Mother," the "Virgin Mary" and "the most successful benevolent heroine." As a result, both a canonical male author, O'Neill, and the critics with a male-centered ideology naturally establish a distorted view of women through their writings. Therefore, the readers need to read the female characters represented in male authors' works with the attitude of the "resisting reader" who rejects this mode of masculine attitude. Such an approach to the female characters of male writers will lead the readers to reexamine gender issues and the oppressive roles of women in male-centered patriarchal societies.
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