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A study of foolish women who beat the deungmungo(登聞鼓)-Focusing on Yuk Chi-ok in Hyeonssiyang-ungssanglingi and Mok ji-ran in Imssisamdaerok

  • The Research of the Korean Classic
  • 2020, (51), pp.5-29
  • DOI : 10.20516/classic.2020.51.5
  • Publisher : The Research Of The Korean Classic
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > Korean classic prose
  • Received : October 15, 2020
  • Accepted : November 11, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Kang woo kyu 1

1중앙대학교 인문콘텐츠연구소

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines the shape and meaning of Yuk Chi-ok in Hyeonssiyang-ungssanglingi and Mok Ji-ran in Imssisamdaerok as embodying the foolish female figure. They are women who have nothing to lose, and they become the male protagonist’s concubines by sounding the drum by desire for love. However, after marriage, Mokjiran disappears when she is killed by a wicked man, and Chi-Ok Yuk finds his place despite committing evil deeds. Yuk Chi-ok and Mok Ji-ran show the schematicity and liminality of the foolish woman as a character type. Folly is at the boundary between good and evil, according to Confucian ideology, and a foolish ugly is made other by Confucian ideology, establishing the scheme of “folly = ugliness”. However, the results of their pursuit of desire are different. This can be understood as being derived from the reality of Hyeonssiyang- ungssanglingi and the ideology of Imssisamdaerok, but the reason can also be found in the boundaries of foolish women. This is because the boundaries of foolish women can be understood as the value of their existence, which is linked to the duality of the Korean novel. Therefore, Yuk Chi-ok, who constantly desires and has boundaries, can survive, but Mok Ji-ran, who has lost the boundaries by conforming to the ideology, disappears.

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