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The study focused on the analysis of the novel <Eel Stew> and <Laughter> by Kwon Ji-yea. It aims to extract meaning through use and variations of pictorial factors appeared on her novels. The use of picture itself and pictorial factors in the two novels turned out to be in a mutual influence relationship with the texts rather than existing by themselves seperately. The sequence interaction of the pictorial factors and analogy was embedded in the epic structure. In <Eel Stew>, the main character and other characters were corresponding with consciousness, unconsciousness, behaviors, and personalities in the texts structured upon the image and imagination acquired from pictures. Also, the pictures were stirring up the reality within and out of the novels through lives and desires, and this was causing a lot of tension. Furthermore, images of the pictures were substituting for what the author failed to describe through narration, and the inside of the narrator which appears as images intervenes in the epic, structure. <Laughter> can be understood in this context as well. It has in common that the pictures in the novel were used as tools for symbols related to the theme of the novel. As it is seen through the analysis on the two novels by Kwon Ji-yea, it could be noticed that the use and variations of pictorial factors in her novels provoke metaphor and symbolism, and these contribute to embodiment of the theme through delicately associating with her unique writing style.

pictorial factors, narrative, Kwon Ji-yea, Pablo Picasso, Eel Stew, Laughter, mataphor, Vladimir Velickovic.