ジョン・スタインベック研究 : 『エデンの東』 と 『聖書』

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  • ジョン スタインベック ケンキュウ エデン ノ ヒガシ ト セイショ
  • A Study of John Steinbeck : East of Eden and The Bible

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East of Eden, p贈blished in 1952, is a noveI ”hich is the truit of the achieve●ents o  John Steinbeck’s I ife as a 踊ovelist.  ”e騨as fir鵬量y detel「圏ined to ”rite it,  In Journal of a 掃ove壁 ㎞∋ says Positively that his other 降ovels 「暇∋re exerC iSeS tO「 thls.     He WaS a ■an繍O ChOUId nOt Pa「t騨ith the Bible. The inflUenCe Of it iS feIt everywhere in his 脚riti㎎s.  East of ㎜5rthy of a sPec ial notice as one脚hich uses the Bib量e consciatWyrne-object ot鱈y thesis is to 5ake Clear the relatiOnS bet脚een EaSt of llden and the Bible.  FO「 冒hat OUrpose he uses t畑∋ 8ib量e and ho脚 he oakes Oood use of i ; I a量 90ing to invest iOate theSe t脚O PrOble電S in the theSiS. 韮n ChaPter I, I consider about Steinbeck’s technique of a!leOory.  His Other nOVelS were 轡ritten by thiS teChnique, tOO.  日e brOUOht Characters and episodeS fro● the Bible and used the繭 in his works,  ↑his technique 融akes the CharaCterS in ㎜en sygbolic.  In other 轡ordS, it 鵬akeS thiS nOvel Universal.     髄is PurpoSe in it is not tO Pepeat 8iblical stories but to create a ne” 目yth by thinkinO highly o「 the Paradoxes o「 the 8ible.  It is one of the i霞Po「tant cha「acte「istics of this nove1, In ChaPter II, I Peter to the t脚o stories in the Old Testa●ent which occuPies very i●Portant Positions in this 寛ork.  τhey are the Cain and Abel story and 舶a縢 and Eve sto「y in ”Genes i s”.  Both of these suggest funda●ental huBan nature”hich re■ains uncha縞9ed 「orever.  So these are the stories for a日 of us.  τhe 撫stern Civi靡iza i ton is based on these.      C勧aPter III is about the 騨ol噛d, °ti●shel° 賢hich furnishes the key to East of Eden. Steinbeck’s original intePPretation o「 it sho轡s his thought 『rEiiR’iTN「 He hateS SySte●S ”hiCh reStrain ■en Of their free 胃i l I tO the eXtre●eS.  And he PutS trust in hu儘afi beings.  So he points o姻t the way to salvation even for Cri圏inalS賢ith Streng affectiOO like ChriSt.      丁he Appendix deaIs 胃i th the defects of this novel,  Hany critics have found ■uch fau lt 膨ith its st Pucture and characters.  But 脚e ■ust not overIook his sPlendid tbOuOht and wonder「ul design.  Ihey gay overco■e the faults, lhis novel is inOOrtant to Oain a better understandinO of the author all the eOre beCaUSe i t haS itS Strength and WeakneSS.     East of Eden is surely One of ’the piltars of fire’ by who● l ittle and frig- OU垂{led thr・OUOh the darkneSS aS SteinbeCk SayS.  閥e thinkS that a great writi吋 has been a staff to lean on.  Though thiS noveI has 口any defeCtS, it dOeS itS Part aS O糠e 9『eat Writing.  I belieVe that ■anV 「eaderS 脚i日 al騨ayS find hU■an OreatReSS and the glOry Of life i駐 it.

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