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A Comparative Study of Mental Structure of Modern Men in Korean and Chinese Psychological Novels in 1930s -Focus on Choi Myone-ik and Shi Zhecun-

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2019, (15), pp.325-344
  • DOI : 10.31809/crj.2019.08.15.325
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature
  • Received : June 30, 2019
  • Accepted : August 10, 2019
  • Published : August 31, 2019

Wang Mingzhen 1,  Yang-ning 2

1강소대학교
2东华理工大学

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ABSTRACT

Based on the theory of Western Modernism, Choi Myung-ik and Shi Zhecun expressed the emotions of modern men in theirnovels with their own unique styles. Instead of torturing by some ideology, the male characters in thenovels of the two writers aimed to enrich their inner world and explore theirown subjects. Theydescribed the character’s features through three aspects. First, unlike classical literature,they focus on the male’s anxiety and narrate instead of describing the men whoare distressed and sighed because of the difficulty of being an official. Second, the male intellectuals inthe works of the two novelists observe the people around them with aself-wrapped perspective. They desireto communicate with them, but at the same time, they cannot break through theloneliness of self-isolation. Third, the modernity of ChoiMyung-ik and Shi Zhecun’s works is also reflected in the weakness of malecharacters in front of female in the psychological writing of male characters,thus completing the weakening of male characters. In their novels, the malecharacters are no longer sheltered from the patriarchal ethical norms of malecharacters and female characters. Male figures are as helpless as reeds in thewind. Therefore, this paper observes themodern psychological structure of male characters in the novel from theperspective of women and compares the characteristics of male characters fromthree aspects, the irrepressible sense of insecurity, the fractured sense of loneliness and the sense of powerlessness when encountering with women.

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