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A Study on Seolchobeuk of Yussisamdaerok

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2009, (19), pp.171-196
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Han Gil-Yeon 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

'Seolchobeuk' is important character for knowing feminism viewpoint of Yussisamdaerok. In the meantime the feminism viewpoint of this novel has been mainly discussed on Princess Jinyang, now Seolchobeuk has another importance in this thesis. She has three distinctive aspect as heroine. first of all, she shows ideal conjugal relation that is rare in the patriarch system through a bosom friendship with her husband. Secondly, she raises an objection to man-centered polygamic patriarch and gropes her way to the world of feminism in the point that she leaves the house of husband to attempt the harmony between husband and enemy country and live alone for life in the her own space. Thirdly, she shows woman's standpoint attaching importance to the family in which she was born in the point that she practices ancestor worship and realize maternal line in her own space. As independent woman with self-respect and social agony, she is progressive and tragic character. Princess Jinyang is the ideal woman character inside of the age as the whole woman and foreknowledge that surpass men. On the other hand, Seolchobeuk shows the progressive woman character outside of the age through carving her own life way withsubjective self-disillusion.

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