작품에 나타난 Stephen Crane의 사상에 관한 연구 = A Study on Stephen Crane's Thoughts in His Works

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to find out Stephen Crane's thoughts by analyzing The Red Badge of Courage and The Open Boat.
The theme in The Red Badge of courage is that man's salvation can be worked out by change and spiritual growth.
Crane thinks that man becomes disciplined and develops in character, conscience, or soul by immersion in the flux of experience. He also thinks that potentialities for change are at their greatest in battle.
This book probes a state of mind and analyzes the gradual transformation of this psychological state under the incessant pinpricks and bombardments of life. Spiritual change, that is Henry Fleming's red badge. In the end Henry Fleming grew from immaturity into maturity, and he got real red badge of courage of conscience dese-rted from his false red badge of wound.
In The Open Boat the despair-hope mood of the men is established in the opening sentence: "None of them knew the colour of the sky", and the final scene repeats the same contrast mood. At the end, when the men are tossed upon "the lonely and indifferent shore", the once barbarously abrupt waves now pace "to and fro in the moonlight". As the sea changes, so the men change. They experience a change of heart. The death of the oiler symbolizes nature's injustice, her treachery and indifference, but it is through his death that change their vision. Similarly, in The Red Badge of Courage, it is the death of Jim Conklin that changes Henry Fleming's vision. At the end, when the men hear "the great sea's voice", they understand what it says, what life means, because they have suffered the worst that the sea can extract from them. The whole meaning of The open Boat is focussed in the death of the oiler. The Open Boat is the direct manifestation of Crane's belief that no man can interpret life without just experiencing it. In The Open Boat as well as The Red Badge of Courage, Crane points out men's helplessness before the ind-ifference of Nature and in the hands of Fate. It is characteristic of his writing that he usually chose to record the meaning of life in moments of crisis. As artist he put his belief into practice. The Open Boat and The Red Badge of Courage are identical in form, in theme, and even in their patterns of leitmotives and imagery. In change lies salvation. The way is to immerse oneself in the destructive element. In The Open Boat the destructive element is the sea; in The Red Badge of Courage it is the battle.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 공포 심리
• Ⅲ. 몰 개 성
• Ⅳ. 자연의 무관심
• Ⅴ. 아이러니
• Ⅵ. 결 론