Shakespeare's Sonnetsに見られるTheDividedSelf

抄録

Shakespeare's Sonnets has two parts; one is dedicated to the youth, and the other is to the lady who is known as a "dark lady". The latter part interests me, for there I can find the poet's swaying emotion. In that part, the poet expresses his love for the lady. It can be said that his love for her is one of things which his self consists of. At the same time, the poet's self has his love for the youth, as a factor which the poet's self consists of, for the poet writes love sonnets for the youth in the former part. Then, when the intimate relationship between the youth and the lady appears, the poet suffers a great deal. For the poet experiences two betrayals at one time; one is of the youth and the other is of the lady. The poet's love for the youth and the lady forms the poet's self mainly, so his self faces crisis because of the detection of the relationship between the youth and the lady. I see the divided self of the poet as a result of the great mental shock. The poet's self is divided into the body and the mind. Especially I recognize the division between the eyes and the mind. In this paper, I quote R. D. Laing, who uses his original words such as "embodied self' and "unembodied self" in The Divided Self, and I observe how the poet's self is divided in the latter part of Shakespeare's Sonnets.