ハヤシ シホ   Shiho HAYASHI   林　姿穂    所属   京都外国語大学  外国語学部 英米語学科    職種   教授
言語種別	日本語
発行・発表の年月	2014/01
形態種別	論文
査読	査読あり
標題	Dominant Female Power and Distorted Images of the Father in Melville’s Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
執筆形態	単著
掲載誌名	中部英文学
掲載区分	国内
出版社・発行元	日本英文学会
巻・号・頁	(33),29-37頁
総ページ数	65
著者・共著者	Shiho Hayashi
概要	Within the domesticity in Pierre, Pierre's mother is unfit to bring up her child to be a mature adult. The mother's immorality hinders her child's development. Isabel is not a good wife who supports her husband, but instead she impoverishes him, and, consequently, drives him mad by depriving him of his manliness and hinders his ability to be a "Self-Made Man." Female family members never sacrifice themselves for the sustenance of the family. Both Mrs. Gledinning and Isabel are sexually attractive and their power works as a destructive force to destroy family ties. In other words, the women in Pierre are extremely self-indulgent and monomaniac. Overall, like Ahab, women in domesticity invalidate the accepted moral code and lead their family members to total destruction. In this sense, Pierre can be read as a domestic version of Moby-Dick, and Pierre becomes the fatal victim of women's self-indulgence. (B5)