本稿は「燈籠」の中の女主人公の自我認識を考察する。言い換えれば、男性作家の女性的文章の觀点から女性人物の性格と意味を明らかにしようとするのである。主人公のさき子は受動的で消極的な性格で否定的な自尊感を持つ女性だ。彼女は水野という他者をあわれに思い、愛情を感じて盜みまでするが、社會通念と導德が暴力的に彼女を窮地に追い詰めると、內面に大きな變化が生じる。彼女は弱さを自分の內部から發見して外部の非難に一方的に傷心するより肯定的な方向に思考を切り替える。これは自分を含んだ家族を外部から客觀化しようとする意識の表現だ。さき子は自ら弱者であることを認識するが、それに屈せず、むしろその弱さを正面から表面化して自身を堂□と見せようとする。 主體は他者との接觸によってはじめて主體として自覺する。彼女は斷絶した世の中、疎通不能の原因を外部から探さず內部から發見し、家族を通じて變化する明日に期待した。彼女は家族の愛を基盤に現實を生きていこうとする。この中には現在の自身を變化させることによって、他者との關係を圖ろうとする熱望も內包されている。したがって、弱者意識に捕われて閉鎖的に過ごした彼女にとって世の中とのつながりのために必要なものは、主體としての自己認識だということがわかる。
This study aims at contemplating on the self-awareness of the heroine of a novel “Hanging Lantern.” In other words, the goal of this study is to identify the characteristics and significance of a female character depicted by a male writer from the perspective of feminine writing. Sakiko, the heroine, is a woman of passive character and negative self-regard. She feels compassion and affection for a person named Mizuno, which even leads to her getting involved in a theft. However, Sakiko experiences a significant inner change as she is violently driven to the corner by the social norm and morals. Sakiko, discovering weakness in herself, converts her thoughts in a positive direction rather than grieving over criticisms cast on her from the outside. This is her expression of consciousness to objectify her family including herself. Sakiko recognizes that she herself is a weak person. however, she rises above it and tries to show herself out confidently by bringing up her weakness to the surface. A subject is recognized as a subject only when it gets in contact with others. Sakiko discovered the causes of her inability to communicate and her isolation from the world inwardly rather than looking for them outside. She looked forward to the future of change through her family. She sets herself to live in the real world based on the love from her family. This also connotes her passion to pursue relationships with others by changing herself as she is now. Therefore, what Sakiko needed for her bond and link with the world as a person who had been caught up by the awareness of being a weak person, and thus closed up from the world was self- awareness to recognize herself as a subject.
