영문학에 비친 성과 도덕의 문제

The purpose of this article is to luminate and the gender aspects of the morality through marriage in English literature. First, Ovidious: Secretly extra-marital affairs are not considered fair play. Second, Chaucer: In courtly love women existed in a role subordinated to men. Third, Othello: Social class differences create conflicts and tragedy in gender roles. Fourth, Antony and Cleopatra: Marriage and Love are politically motivated. Fifth, Milton: Adam forsakes God's Love for Eve's. Sixth, Samson: Love leads to betrayal and revenge. Seventh, Jane Austin: Love and Marriage are stepping stones to improving one's socio-economic conditions. Eighth, Eliot: Love leads to self-sacrifice for one's family. Love enables them to bear extreme burdens and overcome tremendous difficulties within heart in gender relationships. Ninth, Pride and Prejudice: Excessive pride prohibits the attainment of love. Tenth, Thomas Hardy: Characters want to receive love but fail and live in marriages of sadness and idle misery. Eleventh, Charles Dickens: Morality in the novel is portrayed through a character assisting the lower class boy who becomes successful and then rewards those who helped him. Twelfth, Graham Greene: The conflict between theory and piety showed the reality of consciousness. Thirteenth, Henry James implied a woman's duality by changing psychological realism of characters.