타자로서의 동물: D. H. 로렌스의 "사랑하는 여인들"(1920)에 묘사된 토끼와 이효석의 "벽공무한"(1941)에 묘사된 말의 비교연구

Abstract

Yi Hyosŏk understands D. H. Lawrence as an English writer who writes about the relationship between humans and nonhumans in the ecocritical assessment. In Women in Love (1920), Lawrence designs an ecological theme by using animals and examines the relationship between human beings and a rabbit in chapter eighteen “Rabbit.” The rabbit helps develop the love relationship between two main characters while the rabbit is being beaten by them. Like Lawrence, a colonial Korean writer Yi thematizes the relationship between human beings and nature in his essays, short stories, and novels. As Lawrence portrays the love relationship negotiated by the rabbit Bismarck in Women in Love, Yi describes the love relationship between the colonial Korean man Ch’ǒn Ilma and the Russian woman Nadia developed by the horse Achilles in Endless Blue Sky (1941). Ch’ǒn alone bets on the horse Achilles and wins a game, which helps Ch’ǒn liberate Nadia from her work in the cabaret, and he brings her to colonial Korea. In this paper, I examine how each writer describes different animals in Women in Love and Endless Blue Sky based on ecocriticism. I am concerned with the issue of “pathetic fallacy” as to how each writer succeeds in limiting humane emotions to the animal description. The relationship between human beings and the rabbit Bismarck