권력과 욕망의 반복적 투쟁 공간

The Continual Struggling Space of Power and Desire: Roman Polanski’s Macbeth 1971

This paper aims to study the continual struggling space of power and desire of Roman Polanski’s Macæth 1971 through the naked frailties, bearbaiting and mise en abyme lightly based on the absurdity viewpoint. Chapter Ⅱ investigates the space of desire and power through the body exposed of the witches, Duncan and Lady Macbeth. The body exposed in Polanski’s films serves as a visual sign of vulnerability of an embattled identity liable to challenge through unremitting interaction between the inner impulse and desire of the subject. Chapter Ⅲ examines the space of struggling and violence compared with those of the bearbaiting. This brutal scene not only counterpoints the violence in the human sphere but also projects Polanski’s view that a king’s fate, like that of the chained bear, is to be attacked and ultimately destroyed by bloodthirsty underlings. Chapter Ⅳ deals with mise en abyme, the sequence appearing to recur infinitely, through the comparison between the ending part of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and that of Roman Polanski’s. In Polanski’s Macbeth 1971, the structure is circular like the one in an absurd drama. The circle is repeating, therefore, there is no escape from repetition. Finally, this paper helps us realize that the reality we live in now is never avoidable from the circle of desire and power in spite of trying to escape from them.