까렐 차페크의 희곡 약탈자 연구

Karel Capek s The Brigand(Loupeznik)

The Brigand is the first dramatic work that Karel apek wrote by himself. In 1911 apek stayed for a while in Paris, and during this time he began writing the play in collaboration with his brother Josef. Later, he revised the play and brought it to completion on his own in Prague in 1919. As apek explains in his own foreword to the play, he had grown much and gone through many personal changes during the years intervening between the two versions of the play. Consequently, in the later version, apek placed more emphasis on the prudence and stability of middle age, over the passion and recklessness of youth. The two primary characters – the young Brigand and the old Professor – are personifications of the principles of life, and thus the story also conveys symbolic meaning. We can see the author s philosophy of realism through the conflict of these two characters. This paper shows the changes in the author s view of life by comparing the two versions of The Brigand; illuminates aspects of the play that are characteristic of the lyric comedy; and explores apek s philosophy through an analysis of the confrontation between the two main characters.