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A Study on Consciousness of Chastity in Yeolleohamyangbakssijeon

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2011, (76), pp.63-83
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Kim,Su-Jung 1

1조선대학교

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ABSTRACT

Yeonam Park Ji-won's Yeolleohamyangbakssijeon consists of three stories and their themes were faithfulness, chaste reputation, and forced dying in defense of ones chastity. He used a way of comparing the third story that he experienced and was widely known to the world with the other stories to put an emphasis on the second story. He carefully dealt with the area that the ethic view of that time did not allow to achieve his goal. However, he did not criticize chastity or allow remarriage. He considered the custom of chastity as a pride in Yeolhailgi, was not remarried when his wife passed away, wrote lots of biographies on faithful wives, and he considered chastity of widows right, but he suggested that killing oneself for ones chastity is a bad custom in the second story. In considering that he was a scholar within the institutional area of that time, it was very difficult to overcome social restrictions. He sublimed chastity into human sensation while accepting traditional view of ethics, but he refused chastity using euphemism that a person was forced to kill oneself as a means to enhance honor of family. In addition, he had a strong resistance against forced chastity. So his consciousness of chastity was derived from sympathy and led to criticism of inhuman institutionalization.

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