• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.140-150
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• 2013

희랍 신화속의 조각가 피그말리온은 미적으로 완벽한 조화를 갖춘 조각상을 완성한 후, 자신이 만든 조각상과 사랑에 빠져 비너스에게 그것을 인간으로 변신시켜 달라고 기도한다. 인간으로 변한 조각상과 그는 결혼한다. 버나드 쇼의 영화 <피그말리온>에서 언어학자 히긴스는 런던 길거리에서 꽃 파는 여인 일라이자를 데려와서 그녀의 말투와 태도를 상류층 여성의 그것으로 바꾸어 놓는다. 히긴스는 신화의 피그말리온과 달리 피조물의 겉모습뿐만 아니라 내면까지도 변화시켜 놓아 그녀는 주체성을 회복한 '신여성'으로 변모한다. 영화 <어글리 트루스>의 애비는 철저한 계획성과 지식을 요구하는 방송국 피디로서 성공한 삶을 살고 있는 것 같지만, 그녀의 삶은 진정한 인간에 대한 이해와 애정을 바탕으로 한 이상적 관계를 부정하고 있다. 애비와는 달리 마이크는 본능과 감성을 매우 중요시 여기는 삶을 살고 있으며 마이크의 이러한 태도는 차가운 조각상 같은 애비를 따뜻한 피가 흐르는 인간으로 서서히 바꾸어 놓는다. 두 편의 영화에서 피그말리온들은 결함이 많은 여성을 외적으로 뿐만 아니라 내적으로도 바꾸어 놓아 그들과의 진정한 소통을 가능하게 하고 있다.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제4호
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• pp.285-305
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• 1998

In order to scrutinize what realism really means, this paper is to analyze and compare the major realistic plays of Yun Jo-byeong of Korea with the earlier realistic ones of Bernard Shaw of England. As all the scholars concerned admit, Shaw offered reality in all of his plays: social, political, economic, religious. He was a didact, a preacher who readily acknowledged that the stage was his pulpit. Though he preached socialism, creative evolution. the abolition of prisons, real equality for women, and railed against the insincerity of motives for war, he did so as a jester in some of the finest comedy ever written. Shaw brought serious themes back to the trivialized English stage, creating a body of drama that left him second to none among twentieth century dramatists. Today, evolution and creationism and Shaw's ideas on creative evolution and the Life Force remain timely issues. As for Yun Jo-byeong who has written many realistic plays lately, he is known as a major realist in Korea. But his realistic plays are more symbolic, poetic, and private than Shaw's. As a result, Korean realism has not been so flourished in Korea as in England. Therefore, we Korean playwrights who want to write really realistic plays should try to study Shaw's realism more closely than ever.

• 영미문화
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.163-188
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• 2018

Through the action of Major Barbara, Shaw advocates the improvement of human race and civilization through fabian eugenic socialism in the based on the Galtonian eugenics and social Darwinism in late Victorian period. In the play, Shaw contrasts two ideologies, Barbara's spiritual institutionalized Christianity with Undershaft's worldly power to control the conventional society. For the dramatic purpose, Shaw symbolically combines the power of the munitions maker, the intellect of the scholar and the faith of the Salvationist. Shaw seems to believe that the best way of improving the human society can be comprised by effective eugenic agencies regarded Shavian trinities. In relation to the eugenic discourses for social betterment, this essay explores how Shaw's ideas on social eugenic is perceived in Major Barbara through main characters as spiritual, intellectual and economic agencies in terms of social Darwinism for the progress of the human society. As always, Shaw's evolutionary agencies are disillusionized from the idealistic faith through the realistic awareness of economic facts, which is manifested in their practices to advance the institutional society Shaw attacked. It is obvious that the significant facts of eugenic socialism/social eugenics based on social Darwinism are promoted by Barbara, Cusins and Undershaft in Major Barbara to maintain a worthy evolution of society and humanity.

• 영미문화
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.51-70
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• 2009

For a long time Westerners have considered the Orient as unknown and mysterious, but Orientals soon came to be seen as weak and dependent, or feminine. The Oriental woman became a synecdoche for the Orient itself. We can find this theme in several British plays that deal with the Orient and Oriental women, including Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Dryden's All for Love. Both of these plays have Egypt as their setting and Cleopatra as a main character. For a better society, Shaw emphasizes the importance of education. In Caesar and Cleopatra, Shaw sees Egypt as a weak and dependent country which needs the help of Rome. Accordingly, he depicts Cleopatra as young and ignorant, needing to be educated in her role as a queen. Shaw finds possibilities for growth and independence in the Egyptians and Cleopatra, who recognize themselves as Egyptians and pursue their identity apart from the colonialization of Rome. Here the Egyptians attempt to resist and escape the oppression of Rome. Young, dependant and ignorant Cleopatra becomes independent and knowledgeable as the result of her education by Caesar and in the end she becomes a real Egyptian queen. According to Shaw, the Orient and women have the potential to develop themselves and ultimately to overcome the government of Western countries and men. In this play, Shaw emphasizes the potential of the Orient and women and the importance of education. Shaw thinks women can grow and develop through education. Especially through Cleopatra's growth, his thought can be applied for Oriental women as well as Western women. His thought is beyond the 19th century British society in which this play was written. Through this play, we can see Shaw's thought is not limited by race, time and place and also has universality to transcend everything.