혁명연극 <성황당>의 수용미학적 고찰-관객의 감정적 수용성을 중심으로-

Abstract

In Juche era, the principle of the people became as important as the principle of Korean Workers’ Party, and the principle of the working classes in North Korean literature and art scene. The principle of the people is significant in a sense that writers now consider the viewpoints of audience who reads and views the texts. Literature and art was the only tool to advertise their propaganda ideas of only-one, texts with the principle of the people, in other words, texts that can be easily accepted by audience tends to emhasize the popularity because the persons who consume texts understand and interpret them to receive the national ideology correctly. The principle of the people has a common point with acceptance aesthetics. In acceptance aesthetics, they create texts by considering expectations of receiver in the chain of artists, interpreter and receiver, In North Korea as well, they consider the exepectation of audience who interprets the arts in order to create a specific aesthetics of atmosphere through emotional setups in the format and style of drama. In that sense, the revolutionary drama Seonghwangdang can reveal to us how audience in Juche era emotionally receives the arts. Kim Il Seong’s anti Japanese revolution drama Seonghwangdang was replayed in 1978 and looking at the audience reaction that time, the unique aesthetics of atmosphere of the drama is intended as emotional setup for the audience. In Seonghwangdang, laughter and sadness interesect with each other, and an emotional setup is made in format and style, thus audience becomes emotional community to learn the human’s independence which is the national ideology and the main subject of the drama.