| Novel as Bildung: in the study of Robinson Crusoe |
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Ik Soon Chung |
| 교양으로서의 소설 |
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정익순 |
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| Abstract |
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Robinson Crusoe is regarded as a myth since the life of the main character is portrayed as shaping his own destiny by overcoming his unstable and unfortunate circumstances. As the story about Robinson Crusoe is that about Utopia which does not exist in the real world, the place where he lived, the events which were shrouded in obscurity of the development of the story, and the explanation of the character who lived alone in an unsafe place are not clear. Robinson Crusoe lives in an absolute kingdom of imagination, which overstates, reduces, transforms, and distorts dogmatic elements about him.
Due to the symbolic division in Robinson Crusoe, the novel serves as a hinge connecting the real world with the possible world. As archetypal and symbolic meanings are included in the text, the story about Robinson is connected to the mythological image. By modally arranging the relation among elements of semantics conveyed by mythological tales and the story, we study the minimum units of the symbolic compositions. In order to make the structure of a myth into a logical and mathematical form and to quantify it, we must find an equivalent that can be compared to its external quantity. In conclusion, with regard to the regression and confinement of Robinson, the story about him can be transformed into a new event. |
| Key Words:
Myth, Primitive Society, Natural State, Episode, Representation, Imagination |
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