초록 열기/닫기 버튼
The purpose of this essay is to seek the real meaning of Oothoon’s strenuous and holy voice of resistance and growth against tyranny contrasting Oothoon’s essence and Oothoon’s identity. It also shows that the deepest and most pervasive systems of tyranny Oothoon resists are the appropriative, possessive, and proprietary consciousness of the Lockean self and those aspects of British empiricism that valorize the external and accidental over the internal and essential. Oothoon gradually develops an enduring essence or identity and therefore possesses a mind or self of resistance capable of resisting such constraints as slavery and cultural, social, and political ideology derived from Lockean system. Oothoon’s suffering as a female slave and the way she negotiates it help manifest and enhance her identity and set a worthy example for the oppressed everywhere. Although she is a badly abused and broken-hearted woman, she never submits suffering. Rather, admitting suffering actively or resisting powerfully, she preserves her essence and identity and grows into prophetic being.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
appropriation, essence, accidental, resistance, growth, prophetic vision, perception of the infinite
