인간 가치 유형에 기반한 SF아동문학의 인물 분석

Abstract

This study has analyzed the types of values of characters in SF children’s literature. Developed by advances in technology, robots raise the value issue of characters’ humanity in literary works and allow them to reflect on their relationships with others. This research makes readers worry about “humanity” and gives them something to think about it. In particular, focusing on characters in SF children’s literature, which contains various changes and growth in characters due to the nature of the genre, can drive changes in child readers in the real world. Therefore, This research would like to analyze their changes and types by focusing on characters in SF children’s literature, especially children’s characters. Furthermore, this research has referred to Shalom Schwartz’s theory. which has explained the motivational basis, seeing that all human values are different. for that it has categorize human value types into 10 categories and establish relationships between values without simply listing them. Adjacent values have similar motivations, and the farther away, the more different values they represent. It also describes the types of values that are often derived from society, not from individuals, and that affect the way relationships are formed with others. This analysis can reveal the relationship between cultures beyond individuals. The texts to be analyzed are “Robot Friend Andy” and “Teacher is AI”, and each contains issues about the relationship between individuals and communities, and value orientation. The analysis shows that a common configuration between opposing characters is established and that a particular value shifts to a value on the opposite sides. Changes in values directed by characters ultimately affect their self-reflection and identity formation, and robots in the SF genre have a significant impact on human self-reflection. In particular, the process of robots being helpers to child characters or driving their changes and converging together leads to significant growth of children and throws concerns about humanness to readers about this issues.