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<So Hyun Sung Rok> appeared at the mid-to-late of the 17th century as roman-fleuve's early work. We should take this times into consideration with <So Hyun Sung Rok>’s consciousness of the family. From the mid-to-late of the 17th century downward the institution of the family has been changed. The changes were interlinked with the entire spectrum of social system’s change. It were individually under ways, and it’s difficult for setting up the order the causal. In these historical backdrop, <So Hyun Sung Rok> exemplified the formation of family. And it was possible, courtesy of succession to patriarchal rights between mother and daughter. The constituent of family were both maternal line and the male line, it is not by following the system of the late of Chosun Dinasty. These aspects are distinctions between <So Hyun Sung Rok> as roman-fleuve's early work and later works.

latter period Chosun Dynasty, roman-fleuve, <So Hyun Sung Rok>, consciousness of the family, the rights of a patriarch, patriarchal rights