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A Psychological Study on the Life of Old Age in Kim Won󰠏il's Mi󰠏Mang

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2019, 35(), pp.69~87
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2019.35..69
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature
  • Received : May 13, 2019
  • Accepted : June 18, 2019
  • Published : June 30, 2019

PARK, HAE-RANG 1

1서원대학교

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ABSTRACT

Korean society, which is moving toward a “super󰠏aged society,” is required to change and take measures at various quantitative and qualitative levels for the elderly. A study of elderly literature, in particular, that fully considers the generation gap between the elderly and the prospective elderly, which will be the mainstay of the current generation of highly educated baby boomers, could prepare for this change. The study of the life of old age in literature will play an important role in the improvement of the quality of life and social changes of the elderly by dissecting and defining the various values of life and the corresponding emotions and emotions of the older class. Kim Won󰠏il's novel “Mi󰠏Mang” shows the conflicts between mother󰠏in󰠏law and daughter󰠏in󰠏law prevalent in our society against the backdrop of the times of the 1950s. Shortly after liberation, the mother suffers a mental loss due to the departure of her husband, who is immersed in socialist ideology, and lives a miserable life of survival to raise her child alone. At that time, feelings of betrayal and anger toward her mother󰠏in󰠏law are expressed as feelings of anger at an advanced age. In addition, her marriage, and the Japanese occupation and tyranny and extreme poverty through a series of life through the hardships and escape life, to fixate on the position. Although her mother and grandmother are victims and have the lives and emotions of the weak, they show antagonism in old age. The treachery of her mother󰠏in󰠏law, who is a family member and subject of trust and will, is giving life to two elderly women and imprinting feelings that are not well overcome. The feelings of mother's anger are piling up, unabated, repeatedly exploding and actively expressing to her grandmother. In comparison, the grandmother shows an evasive and passive old age due to the anxiety and the guilt and shame she gained from her life journey. Mothers and grandmothers have different individual life histories, but the difficulties they have gone through can be shared by anyone. The resulting emotions leave them in pain. The novel “Mi󰠏Mang” shows how the political, economic and social value environments affect human life, presenting a number of common emotions from an old age position. Mothers and grandmothers are also old age: feelings of anger, betrayal and guilt based on the cooperative relationships between their mother󰠏in󰠏law and daughter󰠏in󰠏law have an absolute impact on old age self󰠏esteem, and the relative situations they experienced as young people are all past, but they dominate and control life throughout their lives. These old feelings in literature are the existential feelings we can experience in real life. Every human being can have multiple emotions through the recollection of past life, which shows a side of an aging society.

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