18세기 국문장편소설의 애정 서사를 읽는 재미 - 처처갈등담을 중심으로

Abstract

Long stories in Korean were read by many people throughout the late period of the Joseon Dynasty. It is considered that large volumes of novels were read constantly by many people because authors of long stories in Korean paid keen attention to creating stories. In this regard, this study viewed conflicts between legal wife and concubine covered most frequently in novels in Korean, from the viewpoint of narrative of romantic relationships, and investigated the strategies that authors established in order to add fun of novels. Counted as long novel works in Korean of the 18th century that became the point of argument were <Hyeonmongssangryong-gi>, <Three Generations of the Choe's Clan>, <Three Generations of the Lim's Clan> and <Myeongjugibong>. First, the introductory character is usually set up as a triangle with a husband's affectionate wife – husband – wife who craves husband's affection. The characteristic of causing a tension in the narrative is confirmed by making the sum of the conditions of the wife eager for affection for the wife. Second, it is confirmed that such novels describe conflicts between legal wife and other wife, based on a story of a fight between a good woman and a bad woman for a lover, portraying that a man's affection is going to a bad woman from a good woman by means of the pills of stupefaction, which arouses curiosity for a turn of affection that the man will show. The scene in which the man gives ordeals to the good wife makes readers feel empathy for the situation that the good wife faces and immersed in the story. Finally, even after resolving the crisis of the use of the unmarried group, which quickly moved the affection of the husband to become the turning point of the narrative, the conflict set up one more crisis or the unmarried single group. It is confirmed that he is using a strategy to maximize the catharsis of the reader by reversing the evil wife's punishment.