페리클레스의 정체성 회복과 모성의 역할 귀환

The Restoration of Pericles's Identities and the Return of Maternity Roles

Pericles, the first one in Shakespeare's romance plays has been known as the work to test romance patterns employing motifs such as shipwrecks, adversity at the sea, lost children, marvelous visions, family separation and reunion. This article purposes to explore the process retrieving Pericles's lost identities based on maternity and how he reconstructs his family and kingdom. Especially, Pericles, the central figure in the play is a father and ruler of Tyre. He has a variety of experience with himself sea-tossed. Through his repeated sea-suffering he unexpectedly loses his identities－a patriarch and monarch and recovers them with the help of female characters in the end. It is remarkable that the role of the female figures is not limited to patriarchal instrument in Pericles. Their positive maternal power plays a significant part in relieving Pericles's suffering, rehabilitating his power and reuniting his families. It is certain that maternal power play a significant role on central male figures escaping from their suffering rehabilitating their power as fathers and rulers, and harmonizing with their families, and others. The romance plays show it is impossible for men to accomplish absolute patriarchal order, further revalidation of kingly authority without the help of maternal power. In the final scene, Thaisa and Marina lose previous active energies and are rather silent against Pericles. It is considered that women in the play are supposed to intend not to completely incorporate themselves into the men-centered patriarchal society. Therefore, it is difficult to accept the fact that Pericles succeeded in recovering his identities completely and establishing his absolute kingdom.