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A Study on the Ideals of Modern Man Presented in the Sin, Chae-Ho’s Novels

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2005, (55), pp.419-442
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

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ABSTRACT

Sin, Chae-Ho who wrote the novel and studied the Korean old history in the early 20th century had always paid attention to the problems of making strong national people through his writing and studying about Korean national history under the premise that the history of mankind is the struggle for 'I' against 'Non-I'. So, he took the Korean old historical heros and recreated them in his stories the characters who have modern and national spirit to fight against foreigners who had been eager to invade Korea and to fight against the native intelligentsia who had been in the pitfalls of imperialism and colonialism. He wanted to recover all the foreign ideologies produced from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Christianity, especially the modern ideologies prevailed in western society. But he did not make such characters to simple hero who were in a historical view of heroism asked by ruler class in a feudal society. Many characters of his stories lived in and with the people, and their acts and thoughts were practical also in such states. This process which restructured from old history to modern meaning resulted in the Mugunghwa(the rose of Sharon) thoughts, the breaking of class structure, the consciousness of anti-Japanese, the criticism of religion and rationalism and imperialism, and the revolution of violence. These concepts are the modern meanings presented in Sin's stories, and are the results of the Sin's excellent vision of world history.

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