著者

川名 真弓 カワナ マユミ Mayumi Kawana

雑誌

雲雀野 = The Lark Hill

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, pp.111-121, 2005-03-31

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Kate Leslie, a heroine in The Plumed Serpent, was an Irish woman of Celtic descent, who would be forty soon. D. H. Lawrence felt nostalgia for Celticism and he treated it as a subject of his own literature. Kate came to Mexico, thinking that she would have to be born again. And she felt that her inevitable fate lay concealed in Mexico. Later she met the leaders of a movement of Quetzalcoatl: Ramon and Cipriano. Quetzalcoatl is a rare bird with green wings. In Mayan Mythology, it is said that a goddess had swallowed emerald and consequently it was born. Christianity saddled a person with a heavy burden and set up the hell. But the humanity Lawrence yearned for was in the pre-Christian ancient heathen world. Kate wore the bridal dress of green with an emerald ring. Quetzalcoatl was a rare bird with green wings. The term of endearment for Ireland is 'The Emerald Isle.' In Lawrence, green was a color having magnificent nobility. He Regarded King Arthur and Quetzalcoatl as the hero. So Lawrence fused the Celts and Mexico in The Plumed Serpent. Eventually 'Mexico is another Ireland.'