에드워드 본드의 리어: 사회 정의를 모색하는 인간

Edward Bond"s Lear: A Man Searching for Social Justice

&nbsp;&nbsp;This study aims to examine the life&quot;s journey of Edward Bond&quot;s Lear and then to clarify the characteristics of Lear as the play both for our society and for our problems. The three issues on which I focused my attention are as follows: ① the Lear locked in himself; ② the Lear wandering between his own world and the outer world; ③ the Lear trying to change the reality of his society.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Our society which Bond has diagnosed is so unjust and obsessed with violence that there is the growing sense of crisis that it may destroy itself. This aspect of our society is reflected in the three regimes of Lear. Bond makes the latest regime to be the most oppressive in order that he not only expresses our society as being trapped into the swamp of violence more and more deeply, but also reflects the sense of crisis from such a situation. The starting point for the making of the better world Bond insists on is to recognize that our society is not just. The next process on the basis of the recognition is to find out both the problems of our society and their causes, and then to search for resolutions. He dramatizes the whole process through the process of Lear&quot;s self-recognition and maturity.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;As blinded Lear represents Bond, we can say the foundation of the just society which Bond thinks is pity and responsibility. Furthermore we feel that Bond emphasizes the strong social responsibility of an individual as a social being by creating his Lear a politician who has assumed responsibility for his mistakes.