Phantomatic and the Ontological Sensibility in The Black Prince

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, as a British novelist and philosopher, is best known for her novels specially The Black Prince that the name of the novel alludes mainly to Hamlet for which she won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Black Prince is notable for the structure of its narrative. It consists of the description of a period in the later life of the main character, Bradley Pearson as the main hero of the novel who explains his own oeuvre. The novel actually exposes the ontological sensibility of the characters. This paper argues that having the phantomatic condition also the phantomatic figure which Pearson had, can shed more lights on his ontology and also other characters being. It concludes that such a sense of phantom caused the protagonist to be alive while he was dead and was waiting for the apparitions of his absences by having expectations of them by utilizing Spectral theory.

کلیدواژه ها:

Phantomatic ، Spectral ، death ، Ontology ، Apparation