'Old Mrs Chundle'　における善意の問題 : 語りの技法と心理描写

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  • Goodwill in 'Old Mrs Chundle' : Narrative Technique and Psychological Descriptions
  • Old Mrs Chundle ニオケル ゼンイ ノ モンダイ : カタリ ノ ギホウ ト シンリ ビョウシャ

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‘Old Mrs Chundle' by Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)was posthumously published in 1929. Unlike other serious novels and short stories, this short story is unexpectdly and surprisingly very comical in some of its climaxes. This comical aspect of many of Hardy's writings is perhaps a neglected one overshadowed by his other major tragic writings. In the story the new curate happens to know Old Mrs Chundle, who is hard of hearing and on this account has neglected to go to church for long years.She tells a lie to him that she goes regularly to church for formality's sake. The curate later discovers her lie and tries hard to make this 'wicked' Old Mrs Chundle to come to his church. His ideas of setting up 'an ear-trumpet'and afterwards‘a sound tube',especially for the sake of Old Mrs Chundle, somehow moves her to attend church.His ordeal,however,during his his sermon caused by her fidgeting just under his pulpit and her stink breathings through the sound tube, discourages him to continue his sermon.His ordeal,the 'test' for the ‘discernment of actions as morally good, or indifferent', appears in the eyes of the people in the church as ‘miracle' or in fact a comedy.His goodwill heretofore for Old Mrs Chundle quickly dwindles and he decidedly avoids meeting her.However her sudden death and her‘will' full of her goodwill for him throws upon his soul a dark shadow. In this paper some ironic aspects of goodwill on both sides are discussed in relation with narrative technique and psychological descriptions.

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  • 言語文化研究

    言語文化研究 19 1-13, 2011-12

    徳島 : 徳島大学総合科学部

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