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The Aspect of Mixed Ethical Values in the Sinsoseol, Binsangseol

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This study maternalized the mixture of ethical values during the modern enlightenment period and the contradiction between the ethical view of the time and reality based on Binsangseol, Lee Hae-jo's "Sinsosul," or new novel. Practice, the ethical value to which he attached importance, was emphasized in modern school education and his early novels, starting with Binsangseol. In Binsangseol, both the helplessness of traditional ethics and the failing of life seeking only benefits are described through characters at the time when modern values were not formly established. Furthermore, the novel does not follow an old typical way in expressing good people and bad people, though it has the age old, typical theme of the good triumphing over the evil. The characters face hardships, but carve out their destiny with strong will. Evil characters sharply analyze objective situations based on rationality and use them to make their life best. The active embrace of ethics is the effort to alleviate the difficulty of conventional values facing the contradiction between rationale and practical interest. Through Binsangseol, Lee Hae-jo explores the possibility of supplementing modern values and the possibility of resolving harmful effects detected during the settlement of modern ethics. He fundamentally examines such possibilities instead of accepting and reproducing the theme of the good triumphing over the evil. Such examination was an experiment on new social ethics created by changing human relations under the under the periodical change rather than the clear conflict like confrontation between old and new.

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