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초록/요약

Schiller’s unfinished drama, Demetrius, published under the title, Fragment und Plan des Demetrius, in 1815 and translated in French in 1821, and Pushkin’s drama, Komedija o Zare Borise i o Grishke Otrep ’eve, begun to be written in Michailovskoe in 1824, read in front of young intellectuals after September 1826, and published in 1993 treat the themes of the legitimacy of the governor, mechanism of power and the historic philosophical aspects of political behavior. The two dramas share extremely similar messages so that Pushkin’s drama can be considered to have received a significant influence from Schiller’s drama. These extremely similar messages are: (1) the legitimacy of the governor is artificially manufactured; (2) politics is none other than drama and camouflage; (3) the behavior of a young imposter, Grigory, is due to boredom and passion; (4) noble aristocrats are opportunistic; (5) religion is a means of power; (6) people are stupid and public opinion is manipulated, but they have influence; (7) female actor, Marina, who indulges herself in desire for power, uses her erotic attractiveness for the pursuit of power; (8) national consciousness conflicts with desire for power and power itself; and (9) destruction of the governor begins with the collapse of his legitimacy. In addition to these common messages, both works also emphasize that history repeats itself.