Morality and the Failure of Redemption : F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”

Matsuura, Kazuhiro

Journal of the Graduate School of Letters, 2015, 10, 87-94

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.14943/jgsl.10.87
URI	https://hdl.handle.net/2115/58210
タイトル	Morality and the Failure of Redemption : F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
著者	著者名 Matsuura, Kazuhiro
言語	英語
発行日	2015-03
出版者	北海道大学文学研究科
収録物名	Journal of the Graduate School of Letters
巻(号)	10
ページ	87-94
抄録	This paper examines thematic similarities between the mythical story of the Wandering Jew and the works of F.Scott Fitzgerald; more specifically his short stories“Babylon Revisited” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Permeating all three tales are themes of wandering, inability to escape the repercussions of the past, and debt, particularly to the dead, that can never be repaid. I argue that the protagonists of“Babylon Revisited”and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”have serious and unredeemable moral debts they acquired spontaneously. I argue that in both stories, Fitzgerald deliberately draws on the myth to explore issues of moral redemption,guilt,suffering,and the impossibility to revisit the past to retrieve and heal previous transgressions;and that these themes are exemplified in the stories circular narrative structures.
資源タイプ	紀要論文
出版タイプ	Version of Record
PISSN	1880-8832
NCID	AA12118273