@article{oai:mue.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000116,
 author = {藤田, 博},
 journal = {宮城教育大学紀要},
 month = {},
 note = {P(論文), Banished from Rome, Coriolanus seeks his revenge on Rome along with his blood enemy Aufidius. In order to dissuade Coriolanus from destroying Rome, his mother Volumnia kneels at his feet and entreats him to call off the attack. The scene, which is one of the most significant in the play, is supposed to strike a chord with the audience. Yet it cannot actually sympathetic. Why is this? One of the reasons is that repetition of the action that one kneels weakens its sacredness. Volumnia kneels to him, yet this rather degrades Coriolanus by repeating what he is expected to do before citizens to be a consul. The other reason is that the figures of plebeians, who stand between Coriolanus and citizens, and seduce the latter, come to be identical with Volumnia, who now faces up to Coriolanus for the people in Rome. The last and the most significant is the sense of exaggeration which is revealed in a physical movement when one kneels. Coriolanus, who hates to kneel to anyone, refuses to show his scars that he has got in fights. Setting a high value on his conduct as a general, he dislikes the idea that his scars speak for him. Yielding to Volumnia's appeal, Coriolanus kneels before her. He has acknowledged that the sense of excessiveness is produced when one kneels, and he hates it, and yet he accepts his mother who kneels before him. At the end of the play, Coriolanus is assassinated by Volscian citizens who call him a betrayer. If any sense of tragedy cannot be felt inhis death, it could be because that Coriolanus is undone by the sense of exaggeration that Volumnia brings when she kneels, and his death cannot evoke the sympathy of the audience.},
 pages = {169--180},
 title = {ひざまずくコリオレイナス},
 volume = {43},
 year = {2008},
 yomi = {フジタ, ヒロシ}
}