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A study on Po Eui Kyo Jip

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2008, (67), pp.273-298
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

YEE WEOL YOUNG 1

1전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study reveals what was meant by a parallel love between main characters, Cho Ok and Lee Sang. Ch Ok and Lee Sang lost their heart to each other the first time they met together, and fell in love with each other. However, their attitudes toward love were different from the beginning, and their love broke up as soon as Cho Ok understood how different the lover's attitude to love was from hers, in which the real relationship between them was thought to be inherent. Lee Sang was only one of the men who thought of Cho Ok as a partner to satisfy their sexual desire. So he probably degraded her as a public sexual parter, comparing her to ‘a well by the road.’ He could satisfy his lust by extreme luck because she chose him as her lover, but was finally broken off due to her finding out what he was truly like. None the less, he was able to return to his previous, usual orbit of life without any mental trauma. On the other hand, Cho Ok as a woman with knowledge and beauty mistook Lee Sang as a talentless, secular scholar for a gentle scholar with a high mentality, which made her make an approach to him and go out with him. What is more, she believed that she could achieve ‘Po Eui ji Kyo’ she usually had a strong desire for. By this reason, she thought of her relationship with Lee Sang as ‘a chaste deed,’ although it was just an extramarital relationship to unrelated others. But she gave up the relationship in frustrating despair, grasping what kind of person he was. Their attitudes were reverse to each other’s, as their awareness toward the partner was extreme. While Lee-Sang achieved his goal of sexual love with a young beauty, Cho Ok lost her desire to the relationship with a gentle scholar only into misery. This study is about the cause of her love as a chaste deed. She adhered to her cause as a person who had a self-conscious desire to be a classical scholar. Besides, her attitude to derive a plausible cause from her love was not only self-conscious but also arbitrary. Though she insisted that she derived a cause for ‘Po Eui ji Kyo[布衣之交]’ with Lee Sang, and regarded her behavior as a chaste one, she failed to reach the interior meaning of ‘Po Eui ji Kyo’, and her relationship with him was degraded to only’ going out with a scholar’ in the literal meaning. Therefore, her chastity resulted in ‘a scandal with a secular scholar.’ Po Eui Kyo Jip [布衣交集] as the title of this book is thought to ambiguously contain the antinomic meaning of both original ‘Po Eui ji Kyo’ Cho Ok yearned for and ‘going out with a man holding no office’ as an literal meaning at the same time. Consequently, Cho Ok can be evaluated to have been an anti-modern woman who wanted to realize her self with an ideology focused on men, though she had a strong sense of independence, and a tragic type transfigured by her desire to realize her self.

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