19-5-76
This image of nature, demonstrating 'the fact that men and animals received the grace and gladness of spring', sets out the narrator's absolute truth ignored or forgotten by all the characters in the tale. The novel thus opens with a picture of resurrection in nature, seen only by the narrator and it is to this resurrection-- the experience of the biblical joy and gladness, which Tolstoy equated with the experience of the will of God, and the inner sense of peace, harmony, and love which marks the 'beauty of God's world'_ that the characters are called. Throughout the novel nature is invested with moral meaning, positive as here or in Nekhlyudov's epiphanic moments of moral resolve, or negative, as in the seduction scene or the prisoner's march through Moscow. Nekhlyudov's story is told as the gradual awakening to the meaning of the initial image of nature and thus as a discovery of the narrator's absolute truth.
This opening revelatory frame is itself surrounded by another, represented by the quotations from the Gospels in the epigraphs and in the final chapter of the work. These quotations comprise another level of absolute truth. The epigraphs stress three major truths: the necessary admission of guilt by all, the need for continual forgiveness by all for all, and the possibility of self-control and self-perfection for all. It is these truths that Nekhlyudov learns through his experience and finally is able to articulate through his reading from the Gospels in the last chapter.**
A. 어휘
demonstrate 論證(논증)하다, 설명하다, 밖으로 드러내다. grace 우아, 고상함, 은총.
absolute 절대적인. ignore 무시하다. character 등장인물. biblical 聖書的(성서적)인.
biblical joy 創造主(창조주)인 神이 주시는 즐거움. equate with 동일시하다.
mark 나타내다. be called to 召命(소명)되다. invest 수여하다. positive 긍정적인.
epiphanic moments 통찰의 순간. cf. epiphany 顯現(현현), 明示(명시). resolve 결의.
seduction scene 유혹의 장면. gradual awakening 점차적인 각성. initial 초기의.
revelatory 啓示的(계시적)인. represent 대표하다, 상징하다. quotation 引用(인용).
the Gospels 福音書(복음서). chapter 章(장).
epigraph 인용문, [卷頭(권두).章(장)의 첫머리에 싣는]題辭(제사). comprise 포함하다.
stress 강조하다. admission 認定(인정), 自認(자인). guilt 죄.
continual forgiveness by all for all 모두가 모두를 계속 용서하는 것.
self-perfection 자기를 완벽하게 만드는 것. articulate 명확히 表明(표명)하다.
19-6-77
Resurrection also deviates from the conventions of the Western novel in its treatment of the plot of desire. In Tolstoy's version of the plot of desire, the story was used to tell a tale of metaphysical and religious quest in which the heroine is invested with the desired moral and spiritual qualities which the hero seeks. Resurrection reworks the tradition differently. It reduces the plot of desire to a past idyllic event, the summer romance of Prince Nekhlyudov and Katusha which later culminates in their symbolic wedding at the Easter service, marked by the shared kiss of peace. This union is then coercively consummated, and these two facts, the idyllic union and its forced consummation, although long forgotten, underlie the subsequent lives of the hero and heroine. The plot of desire is then replayed in the novel as a story of the resurrection of the original romance, first of the forced consummation and its dreadful consequence for the heroine, and only later of the idyllic union of love both once shared and now, in the end, rediscovered in a new form. This story of recovery of an original romance provides Tolstoy with a vehicle to tell a theological tale wherein the quest for the redemption of an orignal sin results in the uncovering and release of an original love, a genuine resurrection.**
A. 어휘
deviate 벗어나다, 逸脫(일탈)하다. convention 관례, 협정, 집회. treatment 처리.
metaphysical 形而上學的(형이상학적). quest 탐구. be invested with 수여 받다.
the desired moral and spiritual qualities 도덕적으로, 정신적으로 바람직한 자질.
rework 改定(개정)하다. reduce 축소하다.
a past idyllic event 과거의 牧歌的(목가적) 사건(사랑).
consummation 달성, 극치, 완료, (신방에 듦에 따른) 결혼의 완료.
forced consummation 강압적인 동침. Prince Nekhlyudov 네크류도프 公爵(공작). culminate 절정에 이르다, ...로 끝나다. the Easter service 부활절 예배. union 결합. coercively 강제적으로. consummate 頂點(정점)에 달하게 하다, 완료되다.
underlie ...의 기초가 되다. dreadful 무서운. subsequent 그 이후의. replay 재연하다. vehicle 전달수단, 매개물. theological 神學的(신학적)인. wherein 그 안에...하는.
redemption 救濟(구제), 贖罪(속죄) uncovering 노출, 발굴. release 해방.
genuine 진짜의, 眞性(진성)의.
B. 구문
-although long forgotten→although they have been long forgotten.
→having been long forgotten→long forgotten→although long forgotten.
-The plot of desire is . . . rediscovered in a new form.
cf. love both once shared and now, in the end, rediscovered
→love which was both once shared and, in the end, has been rediscovered.
[그러고 나서 그 욕망의 플롯은 최초의 로맨스(사랑)의 부활에 관한 이야기로 재연되는데, 첫째 강요된 동침과 그로 인한 여주인공에게 다가온 무서운 결과에 대한 이야기와 그 후 한 때는 공유하였었고 지금은 새로운 형태로 재발견된 목가적인 사랑의 재결합에 대한 이야기이다.]
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