<해와 달이 된 오누이> 각편의 변이양상과 서사적 의미

Abstract

This study has attempted to investigate the variation patterns of version of ‘the Brother and Sister who became the Sun and the Moon’ and figure out its narrative characteristics and meaning. The version of the oral folktale has meaning as a single text, not as an incomplete or wrongly described one. This study is significant in that it has tried to discover diverse meanings in the Korean folktale. The narrative characteristics and meaning discovered in the various patterns of the version of ‘the Brother and Sister who became the Sun and the Moon’ are as follows:First, in (A)(B)(D), (B)(D) and (B-1)(D), a tiger’s defeat and discipline instead of the siblings’ achievements and changes were emphasized. As the story developed from (A)(B)(D) to (B)(D) and (B-1)(D), the focus changed from the siblings to the tiger to emphasize the lesson, ‘a bad tiger that attacks a human must be punished.’Second, in (A-1), a mother who ran off leaving the siblings alone and a stepmother who plotted to kill them are described. They reveal the aspect of ‘bad mother.’ These narrative characteristics deliver a lesson of ‘a mother who does not take care of her child must be punished.’Third, in (A-2) in which a mother survives a tiger attack, the siblings who are unable to fight against the predator and eventually die or just thoughtless siblings are mentioned, which emphasizes a lesson of ‘the siblings who fail to defeat a tiger cannot survive.’In other words, this study has confirmed that variation in the version has been helpful in revealing narrative characteristics and delivering a different meaning in the story. Compared to this, it’s been confirmed that the version in which ‘the Brother and Sister who became the Sun and the Moon’ is told in the richest narrative focuses on the victory and changes of the siblings.