@article{oai:stars.repo.nii.ac.jp:00009494,
 author = {吉田, 一穂 and YOSHIDA, Kazuho},
 journal = {人間文化研究, Journal of Humanities Research,St.Andrew's University},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {The Mystery of Edwin Drood（ 1870） is Dickens’s 15th novel, left unfinished
at the time of his death in June 1870, when he had nearly completed
six of the projected 12 monthly parts. The six parts were published
from April to September 1870 by Chapman & Hall, with the illustrations
by Luke Fildes （1843-1927）. Although most of the commentary has
attempted to explain how Dickens would have finished the novel, The
Mystery of Edwin Drood can also be read as the culmination of themes
and motifs in his earlier works.
　Angus Wilson states that Jasper is by accident of Dickens’s death the
last of the long line of violent, murdering men, that typify the criminal
mind in Dickens’s novels. Although we can guess that the work is a
mystery story by the title of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dickens places
emphasis not on the solution of the mystery but on the representation
of Jasper’s mind. In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the opium den may
have connections to the Orient, but its primary function seems to be to
represent the repressed inner world of John Jasper, so different from
his respectable outer appearance as the choir master of the cathedral,
a contrast not unlike that between Bradley Headstone’s controlled and
mechanical respectability as school master and his passionate murderous
suppressed self.
　What has to be noticed is that Dickens has left a clue to the criminal
psychology of Jasper in Our Mutual Friend （1865）. In Our Mutual
Friend, Bradley Headstone has risen from low origins to his position
as schoolmaster, but his learning is insufficient to enable him to control
his passion and jealousy. Eugene Wrayburn and he became rivals for
Lizzie’s affection. Bradley pursues Eugene up the Thames, spies on his
assignation with Lizzie, and murderously attacks and nearly kills him.
In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, John Jasper is an opium addict and
frequenter of Princess Puffer’s den in London’s East End, although he is
choir director at Cloisterham. He is devoted to his nephew Edwin, but
he is also secretly in love with Rosa Bud, Edwin’s fiancé. Although he
tries to implicate Neville Landless in the disappearance of Drood, Jasper
himself is the most likely suspect at the close of the unfinished novel.
　Jasper and Headstone have two points in common; they are twenty six
years old and have dark sides in their minds behind their respectable appearances.
Jasper leads a double life, as organist at the Cathedral which
he hates, and as drug-addict in low opium-dens in London, while Headstone
breaks loose at night like an ill-tamed animal, tied up all day with
his disciplined show upon him, subdued to the performance of his routine
of educational tricks, encircled by a gabbling crowd. They reveal their
dark sides in their minds when they face triangular love affairs. Dickens
not only has left clues to the mystery of the murder in Our Mutual
Friend, but also suggests that Jasper has a murderous design such as
Headstone has.},
 pages = {297--319},
 title = {The Mystery of Edwin Drood に内在するOur Mutual Friend : ジャスパーとヘッドストンの類似点},
 volume = {16},
 year = {2022},
 yomi = {ヨシダ, カズホ}
}