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A Study on Limits Shown in Characters in Legends and Overcoming Aspects －Focusing on the character legend of Baekho Lim Je－

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2013, (87), pp.227-262
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Han, Jeong-hoon 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Lim Je left various literary works and many episodes with his eccentric behaviors. However, he is not easily found in historic records, and there is no biography or chronicle containing evaluations of descendants. Fortunately, there are many legends of oral tradition related to Lim Je. Lim Je is depicted in legends focusing on eccentric and interesting factors because he lived a very short life without success in career although he had great literary talents. Lim Je in the legend has strong mobility and experiences various events in boundary positions, overcomes risks with his remarkable talents, and gets love of Gisaeng who has high pride. However, Lim Je showed different behaviors according to the status of his counterparts. His remarkable literary talents were used as media to show his generous masculinity and his love was temporary and ephemeral although he won the heart of various women including shamans and Gisaengs. Although the character of Lim Je in the legend shows interesting and amusing characteristics, it shows his limitations behind of it. Those who enjoy the legends wanted to describe failure of Lim Je who fought against the world. Nevertheless, they wanted to overcome the limits. The character who could overcome imitations of Lim Je was He Mok, the grandson of Lim Je. Remarkability of Lim Je shown in the legends is changed into eccentricity (異人性) in the tales related to Heo Mok. In several legends, Lim Je and Heo Mok were overlapped. In character legends, Heo Mok is described as a character with eccentricity and shows people‐friendly characteristics unlike historical evaluation. The character of Heo Mok was made based on the eccentricity of Lim Je, and limitations of Lim Je are overcome through Heo Mok. In other words, Heo Mok with strong eccentricity in tales can be Heo Mok himself but at the same time character of Lim Je who overcomes his limitations. Those who enjoy such legends show their will to overcome the limitations although they perceive the limitations themselves.

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