ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
W. B. Yeats’s View of Good and Evil
Shin Hyun-Ho
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to study the Yeat's view on the good and evilin human nature. Throughout his life, Yeats has made a spiritual, mystical andmythological world in which he tries to portray the eternally dichotomized nature ofhuman consciousness. Yet, he attempts to harmonize the antinomies, the contrariesthat highlight human nature. Yeats's life and art is full of such attempts to unifyharmoniously opposite forces: body and soul, good and evil, light and darkness, thesun and the moon, the antithetical and the primary, etc.. In this almost impossibleunison of conflicting forces, Yeats hopes to find the unity of the two. For Yeats,instinct without spirituality, intellect without emotion, wisdom without action, andgood without evil can only express a part of human nature, and he refused to denyone side of human being. He did not want to separates his soul from matter, goodfrom evil but to find the perfect balance and attain the assertion of the 'Unity ofBeing.'
Keywords :
good,
evil,
antinomy,
conflict,
balance,
unity,
선,
악,
이율배반,
갈등,
조화,
통합