유럽민담 트릭스터에 비춰 본 방학중의 캐릭터 특성 연구 - 한국적 인물형으로서의 ‘소시민적 트릭스터’ -

Abstract

This study examined Bang Hakjoong’s character as a trickster of Korean tales. This study tried to understand trickster characters deeply by finding out if Bang Hakjoong has typical characteristics and special identity as a trickster compared to tricksters in European folktales. Though tricksters appeared in the ancient myth, their character style was completed in folktales. There appeared many tricksters in European folktales which has fantastic imagination and narrative originality. German folktale “Brave Little Seamstress” and French folktale “Púss in Bóots”, English folktale ‘Giant hunter Jack’, Russian folktale ‘A fox of Buktan Buktanobitch’, and so on. These are the characters that have ontological characteristics rather than humorous characters that do a trick. They can be called ‘existing’ image to live their lives because they fall down a giants and go their way straight. In their form, there is human being’s essential attribute as an exclusive being. Bang Hakjoong in a Korean folktale has basic characteristics of a trickster. However, we can see rather small and chicken-hearted person in him different from typical tricksters in European folktales. Bang Hackjoong fight with ordinary people rather than giants and he seek small and common desires such as doing a trick to eat food. And we can find that even he can’t achieve his desire many times. We can name Bang Hakjoong’s character that has special identity as ‘petty bourgeois trickster’. Bang Hakjoong as petty bourgeois trickster is the person in a borderline between desires and reality, joy of conqueror and sorrow of ordinary people. I suggest that Bang Hakjoong as Korean character has special, esthetic, and cultural values.