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The purpose of this study was to examine the implementation aspect in Hyang-rang jeon. In understanding Hyang-rang jeon, to find out the meaning of Hyangrang's death is the key factor. This paper focuses on Hyang-rang's figure that we have missed, not a virtuous woman noblemen respected her strong will but a scared and lonely woman who couldn't help choosing the death after failing to live happily as a ordinary woman. Hyang-rang hesitated in front of death and it was far away from keeping her chastity for her to refuse the remarrige people asked for. This paper find out the various meaning of death represented in Hyang-rang jeon through the writer's viewpoint on Hyang-rang's attitude toward death and explain the reason of death she chose. This paper researches the reason of her death by looking on the side of 'isolation from a world of common people' and 'inernalized Yeol(烈) ideology '. Therefor Hyang-rang's death can be different from virtuous woman's one on the viewpoint of social custums. The writers of Hyang-rang jeon glorified and admired Hyang-rang's death because of Keeping her chastity, this is why they're all men and noblemen. They distorted the stories of Hyang-rang who was a woman and common person.

Hyang-rang, Lee An-Jung disagreement of Narrative, virtuous woman, suicide, a Lower Class Woman Subjectivity