| dc.contributor.advisor | 吳易道 | zh_TW |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wu, Yih-Dau | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author (Authors) | 廖映絜 | zh_TW |
| dc.contributor.author (Authors) | Liao, Ying-Chieh | en_US |
| dc.creator (作者) | 廖映絜 | zh_TW |
| dc.creator (作者) | Liao, Ying-Chieh | en_US |
| dc.date (日期) | 2026 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2-Mar-2026 12:03:30 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.available | 2-Mar-2026 12:03:30 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.date.issued (上傳時間) | 2-Mar-2026 12:03:30 (UTC+8) | - |
| dc.identifier (Other Identifiers) | G0111551003 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri (URI) | https://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/161832 | - |
| dc.description (描述) | 碩士 | zh_TW |
| dc.description (描述) | 國立政治大學 | zh_TW |
| dc.description (描述) | 英國語文學系 | zh_TW |
| dc.description (描述) | 111551003 | zh_TW |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | 此篇論文探討，在馬修・路易斯的小說《僧侶》中，誓言為何是一種傳達悚然及恐懼的媒介，以及「誓言」如何將這些感受加諸在小說角色身上。本文分析《僧侶》中主要出現的兩種誓言，以及此兩種「誓言」對角色內心慾望的影響。誓言是如何影響影響小說中人物的命運，而又是為什麼這些小說人物需要為自己許下的誓言，付出恐怖的代價。
本文分為三個章節，各別分析主要角色：安布羅西奧 (Ambrosio)、雷蒙德 (Raymond)、阿格尼斯 (Agnes) 和流血修女 (The Bleeding Nun) 幾人和宗教的獨身誓言以及婚姻誓言的關係。第一章描述安布羅西奧因獨身誓言，而不斷壓抑與他人建立親密關係的渴望。同時，誓言卻又給予他實現慾望的權利及名聲。誓言促使他墮落並且暴露他貪婪的本性。第二章探討婚姻帶給阿格尼斯以及流血修女等女性角色許多恐怖的體驗。她們期望在婚姻中獲得穩定及支持，然而婚姻誓言卻成為禁錮她們的牢籠，甚至為她們帶來殺身之禍。最後一章講述了錯置的婚姻誓言為雷蒙德和他的愛人阿格尼斯帶來許多災禍及恐怖。
此篇論文旨在以誓言為切入點，分析《僧侶》中的悚然與恐懼。雖然小說中出現許多經典的恐怖元素，例如：幽靈、地窖、土匪以及謀殺，誓言卻是引發這些恐怖元素的源頭。馬修·路易斯 (Matthew Lewis) 透過誓言，邀請讀者思考，恐懼如何滲透到人際關係中，如何左右他人命運與際遇。 | zh_TW |
| dc.description.abstract (摘要) | This MA thesis examines why, in Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk, a vow is a medium of conveying horror and terror. There are two types of vow in the novel: the religious vow of celibacy and the secular vow of marriage. I argue that these vows are the source of fear for characters in the novel because they either intensify or suppress their desire.
My thesis comprises three chapters. The first chapter is about how a celibacy vow both suppresses Ambrosio’s desire and enables him to build interpersonal relationships with Agnes. The vow of celibacy is the catalyst that causes Ambrosio’s depravity and exposes his greedy nature. In the second chapter, through the examples of Agnes and the Bleeding Nun, I demonstrate how the marriage vow is implicated in the production of fear in The Monk. Both of them crave stability and support from marriage. However, their yearning for constant love gets them into imprisonment and murder. Lastly, the third chapter is going to elaborate on the troubles and fears that Raymond's misplaced marriage vow brings to his lover, Agnes, and himself.
This thesis aims to analyze fear in The Monk through the unique perspective of vows. Although there are numerous familiar ways of generating horror and terror in Gothic fiction, such as describing a ghost, a dungeon or a murder, Lewis is not satisfied with recycling those established conventions. Instead, Lewis chooses an alternative method of creating fear: taking or breaking a vow. In so doing, Lewis suggests that the source of fear lies in controversial interpersonal connections. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Chinese Abstract VI
English Abstract VIII
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Ambrosio and the Vow of Celibacy 8
Chapter Two: Women and the Marriage Vow 19
Chapter Three: The Horror of Misplaced Vows 27
Conclusion 35
Works cited 38 | zh_TW |
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| dc.source.uri (資料來源) | http://thesis.lib.nccu.edu.tw/record/#G0111551003 | en_US |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | 馬修·路易斯 | zh_TW |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | 《修道士》 | zh_TW |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | 歌德小說 | zh_TW |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | 誓言 | zh_TW |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | 悚然與恐懼 | zh_TW |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | 慾望 | zh_TW |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | Matthew Lewis | en_US |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | The Monk | en_US |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | Gothic fiction | en_US |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | vow | en_US |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | horror and terror | en_US |
| dc.subject (關鍵詞) | desire | en_US |
| dc.title (題名) | 《僧侶》中的悚然與誓言 | zh_TW |
| dc.title (題名) | Horror and Vows in The Monk | en_US |
| dc.type (資料類型) | thesis | en_US |
| dc.relation.reference (參考文獻) | Aikin, John, and Anna Laetitia Aikin. “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand: A Fragment.” The Westminster Magazine, 1773, pp. 592–93.
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Fennell, Jarad Heath. Representations of the Catholic Inquisition in Two Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novels: Punishment and Rehabilitation in Matthew Lewis’s “The Monk” and Ann Radcliffe’s “The Italian”. 2007. University of Central Florida, MA thesis. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Lewis, Matthew. The Monk. Edited by Howard Anderson, Oxford UP, 2016.
McCrystal, Erica. “The Gothic Experience of Terror and Horror in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk.” Supernatural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 23–32.
Messier, Vartan P. “The Conservative, the Transgressive, and the Reactionary: Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian as a Response to Matthew Lewis’s The Monk.” Atenea (Mayagüez, P.R.), vol. 25, no. 2, 2005, pp. 37–48.
O’ Connell, Lisa. The Origins of the English Marriage Plot: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge UP, 2019.
Radcliffe, Anne. “On the Supernatural in Poetry.” New Monthly Magazine, vol. 16, no. 1, 1826, pp. 145–52.
Rawlings, Helen. The Spanish Inquisition. Blackwell, 2006. Wiley Online Library.
Townshend, Dale. Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture. University of Wales Press, 2024. | zh_TW |
