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ChoUng-Jeon, as Seen Hero’s Time and Hero’s Territory Graph -An Essay on Korean Classic Structure-

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2013, (51), pp.5-26
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 20, 2013
  • Accepted : February 8, 2013

Yongcheol Kim 1

1부산대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The fictional process of ChoUng-Jeon, an korean hero novel, can represent the line and surface of a graph. On this graph, plot and charaters appear in order. This graph is a Hero’s Time and Hero’s Territory Graph. This graph display a curved line. It goes below and then goes up. This curve display hero’s fall and restoration. Hero and the world fall at the same time. And hero builds strength and relieves the world. Required time is ten years. In ten years the world delay the perishment and wait for hero’s relief. Hero’s time graph display a trial and preparation and messianic hero in turn. The messiainc hero is a fundamental form. The heroic time diplay a stage of fall-trial-preparation-restoration-peace time in turn. Hero’s time graph is Hero’s territory graph, too. The part below central line is hero ChoUng’s territory. This territory is in proportion to ChoUng’s heroic strength. This territory represents hero’s Mom. Hero’s Mom repeats the process of disaccord/accord of subjective/objective. In this process, Hero’s Mom drives ChoUng-Jeon forward. The characters appear on the stage in this graph. The characters represent three charactiristics. First, Father’s absence. Second, crossing appearance of upper/ lower class. Third, swinging appearance of exposing and disposing characters

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.