<江都夢遊錄>에 나타난역사적 상처와 형상화 방식

Abstract

The present study purposed to examine how <Gang-do- mongyurok> represents the historical wound of the fall of the Ganghwa Island and to explain characteristics that distinguish it from other works of Mongyurok. Women victimized by the fall of the Ganghwa Island are different by nature from figures in other works of Mongyurok. They were thrown into an irresistible situation and victimized innocently by irrational force. When the victimized women’s utterances are analyzed, they sometimes of course reflect the author’s intention to find out who are responsible for the fall of the last fortress and to give ideological meanings to the women’s death, but sometimes expose the innate human natures like the thought of families, desire for life, and mental panic between life and death. The author could not avert his eye utterly from the latter. That the author put up the dreamer as an absolute onlooker, that the figures’ abnormal appearances were described empathetically, that the story was hurriedly wound up with intense suggestiveness of wails, etc. are all considered the author’s attempt to enhance the reality of the incident through hiding himself and, at the same time, his unconscious efforts to avoid fundamentally inherent human responsibility for the historical wounds told in the story. Thus, <Gang-do-mongyurok> is regarded as an epic work.