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A Study on the Meaning Changes of Chunhyang's Resistance in ‘sipjangga’

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2009, (20), pp.249-282
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose

Seo, Youseok 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article focuses on ‘sipjangga’ which is considered the highlight of ChunHyangjeon and examines the aspect of existence by version and attempts to examine the aspect of changes in the meaning of ChunHyang’s resistance embodied in the ‘sipjangga.’ The ‘sipjangga’ in the category of ‘namwongosa’ sometimes showed the aspect of being contracted or deleted for commercial purposes and, at the sametime, of being expanded for the purpose of standardization of the literary work. This is also due to commercial purposes contained in sechekbon and bangakbon. The ‘sipjangga’ appeared in wanpan versions show the meaning of the resistance being expended from personal aspect to social aspect. So it can be said that the version in which Chunhyang’s resistance is best represented through the ‘sipjangga’ is wanpan 84jang version. Okjunghwa type versions shows a new aspect of trying to secure the rights of the individual in the public framework of law through describing the appeal hearing and trial procedures in the daejeontong -pyeon The meaning of Chunhyang’s resistance represented in the ‘sipjangga’ begins with hopless love between gisaeng ChunHyang and yangban young bachelor and the woman’s struggle to attain the love and the resultant issue of chastity. However, Chunhyang’s status as gisaeng acted as an important issue that' separated the pair of lovers and, under these circumstances, ChunHyang’s resistance appears to obtain the new social meaning to denounce the contradiction of the social status. Such aspects are represented in changes in wanpan version in detail in that the wanpan version raises the status of ChunHyang, thereby showing that ChunHyang’s resistance is not a personal issue of gisaeng ChunHyang but can be an issue of a commoner ChunHyang i.e. of all the general public’s issue. And such changes obtain civilrights consciousness and the new meaning of resistance to have the rights of the individual protected legally, but such new consciousness of the rights of the individual weakens the social meaning of the love of the two lovers and their suffering of their struggle to attain their love, resulting in returning again to the issue of personal love between ChunHyang and Idoryeong. And it goes without saying that the ‘sipjangga’ lies in the center of changes in the meaning of ChunHyang’s such resistance.

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