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The Glorification of Violent Discipline and its Meaning -Focused on “Hyŏnssiyangungssangnin’gi” and “Hyŏnmongssangnyonggi”-

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2024, (50), pp.145-170
  • DOI : 10.52723/JKL.50.145
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : September 30, 2024
  • Accepted : November 10, 2024
  • Published : November 30, 2024

Hwang Ji Hyun 1

1대동문화연구원

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ABSTRACT

This study attempted to grasp the reality of hierarchical patriarchy through violent discipline and its glorification process, focusing on Korean long-form novels, “Hyŏnssiyangungssangnin’gi” and “Hyŏnmongssangnyonggi”, in which ideal patriarchs appear. The physical punishment of parents has been affirmed as a hawk of love. Considering that there is still a perception that affirms violent discipline today, it is natural that corporal punishment was accepted naturally during the Joseon Dynasty. In both texts, corporal punishment is considered a legitimate punishment suitable for the procedure, and the bodies of those who were designated as sinners were thoroughly objectified. Furthermore, violent discipline was glorified as the right child education through various ways. First, justification was achieved by inserting various utterances affirming punishment behavior. Through this, the existence of the patriarch, the punishment and perpetrator, was naturally eliminated. On the other hand, the two texts highlighted the patriarch’s benevolence, and immediately after the corporal punishment, a joke was inserted to offset the violence of bloody corporal punishment. There has been a discussion that the strictness and benevolence of the patriarch conflict, but it should not be overlooked that the status of a genuine patriarch can only stand fully when the two elements coexist in one person. This can be an important starting point for understanding how patriarchy works. Through this glorification, harsh corporal punishment was accepted as natural, ordinary. On the other hand, through a series of processes of children’s disobedience, harsh corporal punishment, and glorification, the patriarch’s high authority was only able to become substantial in front of the family members. The command system, which moves in perfect order under the command of the patriarch, and the objectified body that is overpowered by it show the patriarch’s power to rearrange the order at the same time as a guardian of order. In terms of limiting the scope of the body and reaffirming its position, violent discipline creates a body under order. As a sinner, being asked to voluntarily make appropriate gestures is more than just blaming certain words and actions and preventing the recurrence of such actions. It encourages the person to re-enter the order on his own. In contrast, the patriarch’s body expanded dramatically at the very scene of corporal punishment as a canal of vertical order.

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