- 著者
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谷川 二郎
- 出版者
- サイコアナリティカル英文学会
- 雑誌
- サイコアナリティカル英文学論叢 (ISSN:03866009)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.1997, no.18, pp.1-15, 1997
There is necrophilious taste in the scenes where Romeo meets Juliet, who is thought to be dead for him, in her familiy's semetry, and Othello talkes to himself, looking at Desdemona sleeping in her deathbed. In Othello's words: " I will kill thee / And love thee after ", we clearly see the protagonist's necrophilious desire. This necrophilious desire is caused by Othello's misunderstanding of his wife's disloyalty which causes him strong mysogyny at the same time. Othello's necrophilious desire is, as it were, the inversion of mysogyny caused by Desdemona's misundrstood disloyalty. Among the plays of around 1600, turning point of the playwright's dramatic vision from comic to tragic, the dramatic setting of heroine's disloyalty in Troilus and Cressida proves true unlike that of Othello. Troilus is shocked to see and hear Cressida's unbelievable disloyalty, while Hamlet severely criticises his mother's early remarriage with his uncle, which means the disloyalty against her ex-husband, his father. And Lear's unquenchable agony and anger caused by his two daughter's ingratitude lead him to the extreme of cursing feminity as a whole. In the Romance Plays, the last group of tragi-comedies, which are characterized with the happy-endings of forgiveness, reunion and reconciiation, the theme of protagonists' jealousy caused by heroine's supposed disloyalty is persistently repeated. Their jealousy is always 51accompanied with strong sense of mysogyny when they misunderstand they are betrayed by their wives or lovers. It is so strong that it never is healed till it leads them to decide to kill their wives or lovers. True reconciliation and reunion only comes after this bitter process of killing heroines once. Leontes in The Winter's Tale meets the happy case of reunion and reconciliation between husband and wife where the protagonist's necrophilious desire enjoys a happy ending under the theme of jealousy, while the playwright shows us a twisted, grotesque scene of necrophilious desire in Cymbeline.