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스위니 아고니스테스 는 극적 형태에 있어서 T. S. 엘리엇의 첫 번 째 탐구 작업인 바, 대체적으로 실패라고 여겨지고 있다. 그러나 엘리엇 이 이 시를 자신의 시 전집들에 포함시켰다는 사실은 독자들로 하여금 그것의 의미를 그의 작품 전체 속에서 숙고하게 만든다. 그의 초기 작 품들의 명백한 미숙함으로부터의 이탈이 변화나 역전의 신호가 아니라 그의 정서의 확대나 발전이라는 그의 안내를 따라간다면, 이 시는 보통 사람들의 감상주의적인 성향에도 불구하고 보통 사람들의 정서를 변화 시키려는 첫 번째 단계인 것이다. 이 시가 인기가 많았던 마리 로이드 처럼 관객에 대한 정서적 혁명의 영향력을 극대화하는 첫 번째 단계로 의 입문이었기 때문에, 단순히 ‘실패’라기보다는 ‘성공적인 실패’라고 정 의되어야 한다. 이러한 실패의 결과로 이어지는 시극들 전부에서 ‘유머’ 의 어조가 ‘심각함의 어조로 바뀌었다. 하지만 관객의 의식적인 관심을 요구하겠다는 그의 전략의 이러한 변경이 엘리엇의 정서적 혁명의 최종 목표인 공동체의 영적 가치관을 변화시키기에 충분히 좋지는 않았다.

This study is to find out how various number of themes are revealed and then developed progressively in T. S. Eliot’s plays, Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party, The Confidential Clerk and The Elder Statesman. The martyrdom, which may be defined as the identification with the will of the God, of Archbishop Thomas Becket is so much emphasized that the aspect of salvation is neglected in Eliot’s first major play, Murder in the Cathedral. Thus in the second play, The Family Reunion, Harry’s salvation becomes the main theme. However, the process of salvation is sought here too vigorously and even violently to induce the death of Harry’s mother as well as that of his wife. In the third play, The Cocktail Party, several ways to salvation are suggested according to the levels of perception. ‘the best life’ of martyrdom is offered to the selected few including Thomas Becket. However, ‘a good life,’ in which a cocktail party is being held sometimes, is more than enough for the salvation of common peple because “human kind cannot bear very much reality.” For the third group of “a living object, but no longer a person,” to be an ordinary person can be the best way of savlation. The Confidential Clerk contains answers to the questions presented in Murder in the Cathedral, as The Cocktail Party has the solutions to the problems presented in The Family Reunion. Lucasta, ‘a living object,’ is changed into ‘an ordinary person,’ while Colby, ‘a good life,’ is changing into the mode of ‘the best life’ in The Confidential Clerk. The Elder Statesman, Eliot’s last play, tries to show that the salvation of Lord Claverton may be achieved by the confession of the past misdeeds.

T. S. Eliot was immediately accepted as one of the qualified philosophers in the letter of June 23, 1916 by Prof. J. H. W oods in the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University immediately after the completion of Eliot’s doctoral dissertation, Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy 01 F. H. Bradley in April, 1916. Eliot, however, did not go back to U.S.A., which was clearly understood by Eliot himself as the critical decision to give up the bright future as a prominent scholar and to face severe financial difficulties because of the expected problems of the relationships with his own parents in U.S.A. The literary turn of Eliot’s main attention from philosophy is explained in this essay through the examination of Eliot’s doctoral dissertation itself. 1 think Eliot could not accept Bradley’s absolute idealism fully, even though he could not reject it completely. Eliot is not a relativist to give up the whole Bradley’s absolute idealism, i.e. metaphysics, but a relative idealist not to reject blatantly nor to accept, without any condition, the probabi1ity of transcendental experience, i.e. the presence of the Absolute in this world. His dilemma in the study of Bradley’s idealism, the most important philosophy at that time as Eliot thought, led him to the poetry. As Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction is a little different from Postmodernism especially in the view that it did not deny completely the present necessity of metaphysics or the Project of Englitenment, Eliot’s philosophical position is quite similar to that of deconstruction. Eliot’s poetry and literary criticism, which have been regarded as one of the representative cases of Modernism, is discussed in this essay in terms of deconstruction, one of the major literaη criticisms of Postmodernism. 1 think Eliot has to use the ironic language or logic in his literary work, for he has to use the language or logic of Modernism for his already achieved postmodern thought against his manifested intention.