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The New Woman's of Love and Freedom of Divorce - Focus on Kim Myeong-sun's 「I Love」-

Song, Myunghee 1

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ABSTRACT

In this dissertation analyzed through 「I Love」 of Kim Myeong-sun a modern Korean female writer, the new woman's freedom of love and freedom of divorce「I Love」(1926) have a common point that a new woman who insists a right to make their own decisions on her bodies out of an exclusive ideology of marriage has a trouble with her husband. An inquiry of extramarital sexuality is an old issue, but it has been led by men traditionally. Yeong-ok, a heroine of 「I Love」, married other man although she felt love from Choi Jong-il who went to study abroad before marriage. By the way, after 7 years, as she met Choi Jong-il again, she asked for a divorce with "A married life without love is prostitution". At the work's ending, because of a fire estimated by the husband's arson, Yeong-ok and Choi Jong-il only cried 'I love you' while a tenant was burning. In this work, the fire symbolizes the husband's revenge. Kim Myeong-sun has expressed subjects that attach greater importance to love than to marriage. 「I Love」 shows this consciousness the most remarkably.

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