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A figure perches, hunched in reflection.
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But this canonical sculpture isn't just contemplation incarnate.
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French sculptor Auguste Rodin intended it to represent a specific person— and fit into a much larger piece featuring the fiery pits of Hell— a project that obsessed him during the last decades of his life.
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So, who was “The Thinker” and what was he actually thinking?
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Rodin's path to renown was rocky.
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He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, applied to the esteemed school of fine arts, and was rejected three separate times.
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After several years working as a craftsman, he submitted his first sculpture to Paris’ Salon— and was denied.
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It wasn't until 1877, when he was 35 and fresh off a visit to Italy, dazzled by the Renaissance sculptures on display, that Rodin completed his first major work.
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However, critics accused him of casting the lifelike sculpture directly from the model.
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But he hadn’t, and other artists vouched for him.
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As the controversy concluded, however, Rodin drastically shifted his style.
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Rather than render academically realistic forms, he began creating rougher, more expressive surfaces.
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Advances in camera technology had recently made it possible to capture perfect likeness, but Rodin argued that artistic renderings, though less precise, were more truthful.
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Like artists helming the burgeoning movements of Cubism, Abstraction, and Impressionism, Rodin was poised to modernize sculpture, lending new life to classical forms.
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And in 1880, he received his life-defining commission: a monumental doorway for a new French museum intended to echo the “Gates of Paradise” by Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti.
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Rodin proposed its antithesis: "The Gates of Hell,” a swirling, infernal composition featuring over 200 tormented souls.
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It was inspired by Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” a 14th-century poetic journey through the nine circles of Hell and its doomed inhabitants’ downfalls.
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Rodin began “The Gates” in clay, sculpting small, interlocking figures, his studio filling with fragments to be rearranged, combined, or enlarged as independent works.
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Breaking with tradition, he left visible traces of the creative process.
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However, the museum was never built.
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And the project became a sprawling obsession of endless revision.
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But it was one that would yield some of Rodin’s greatest sculptures— individual elements from “The Gates” that were isolated, refined, and scaled up.
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Like many artists, Rodin had a team of studio assistants who were talented in their own right.
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For “The Gates,” he favored an ancient technique, the lost-wax method, to go from clay to bronze.
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For each sculpture, his team made various molds, beginning with plaster and moving into hollow wax replicas they’d coat and heat, melting away the wax, before pouring molten bronze in.
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Finally, they’d break the outer shell to reveal the solid metal sculpture within.
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Complex compositions were cast in sections and soldered together.
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Then, Rodin’s team would finish the surface, applying a chemical patina.
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Within “The Gates of Hell,” forms described in Dante’s “Inferno” writhed in sin-struck anguish: lovers Paolo and Francesca grappling eternally in forbidden lust and political traitor Count Ugolino cannibalizing his sons in his final desperate moments.
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Rodin also found infernal inspiration in other works, like the carnal themes explored in a poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire.
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But above all of this hellish chaos was to be a single seated figure— not just any man, but the author of “Inferno,” Dante, himself, pondering the suffering below, considering human nature’s great pitfalls, the weight bearing down on his fist.
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Rodin originally called him “The Poet,” then “The Thinker.” First cast on its own in 1888, “The Thinker” became a sensation.
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Out of context, the figure came to be seen less as Dante wrestling with sin and damnation, and more of an everyman; a universal symbol of the human mind’s ability to reflect, doubt, and create; or even France itself, striving to balance its values.
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In 1904, a life-sized “Thinker” was installed in public— not overlooking Hell, but crowning a cultural monument.
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And it soon became one of the world’s most famous sculptures.
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But much as “The Thinker” remains eternally consumed by contemplation, Rodin’s “Gates of Hell” remain unfinished.
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Despite 37 years of work, the first bronze cast of “The Gates” was completed nearly a decade after his death.
このレッスンについて
このレッスンでは、ノア・チャーニーによる「思索者」の背景を探りながら、英語のスピーキング練習を行います。特に、オーギュスト・ロダンの彫刻「思索者」が象徴する深い内容や、彼の人生について学ぶことで、英語を話す際の表現力を高めます。この動画を通じて、思考や反省をテーマにした会話を取り入れることができます。
キー語彙とフレーズ
- 思索者 (The Thinker) - ロダンによる象徴的な彫刻の名前
- 反映する (reflect) - 思考や感情を表現するために使われる動詞
- 表現 (expression) - 感情や考えを言葉や動作で示すこと
- 苦悩 (anguish) - 深い苦しみや悲しみの感情
- 創造 (create) - 新しいものを生み出すこと
- テーマ (theme) - 特定の話題や概念
- 作品 (work) - 芸術作品や著作物のこと
練習のコツ
この動画のスピードとトーンに合わせて英語シャドーイングを行うためには、まずリズムをつかむことが重要です。「思索者」の深い思索を表現するためには、声のトーンやペースに注意を払いましょう。
具体的には、動画の各セクションを何度も繰り返し聞き、発音を真似ることで、英語スピーキング練習を充実させることができます。クォートには感情が含まれているため、自分自身の感情を込めて読むことも忘れずにしましょう。
また、shadowspeaksのテクニックを利用することで、台本なしでも自然に話せるようになります。特にロダンや「思索者」のテーマに関連するフレーズを使うことで、会話の幅を広げることができます。これにより、英語をより自由に、創造的に使えるようになるでしょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。