<銀愛傳>의 문학적 특징과 교육적 효용성

Abstract

<Enaejeon> was reconstituted based on a true story of a murder case which occurred during the Reign of King Jeong Jo in the Joseon Dynasty. A key content of this work is involved with explaining justification of the act of Enae's killing an old woman cruelly who accused her. <Enaejeon> contains traces of mental anguish Joseon society had in the 18th century in relation to the ambivalent value judgment of 'law and morality'. The reason why a writer, Yi Deok Moo created <Enaejeon> is as follows: First of all, he tried to instill ethics through this work. He intended to let the public know about the case of Kim Eun Ae who killed a person in order to disentangle an injustice. In addition, he tried to use this work in an educational way. In particular, he proposed a desirable image of a woman in the patriarchal family system stressing fidelity which was a core of the education of women. The characteristics of this work are summarized as follows: First, one of them is involved with an emphasis on ethical themes. It is an essential notion which is proposed to readers reading <Enaejeon> the most strongly. Second, it is involved with twofold composition of facts and fiction. The author secures realism through an objective narrative style and showed three-dimensional composition covering both facts and fiction. Third, he provided personalities of characters and their conflict situations in a dynamic way. This work portrays the characters uniquely and reproduced the incident vividly to show feelings of a novel well. <Enaejeon> is a work written for the purpose of educational utility of literature. King Jeong Jo's ideology was reflected in the publication of <Enaejeon> to consider literary as a means of teaching people in order to realize his dream of moral politics. In addition, Yi Deok Moo who received King Jeong Jo's royal command recognized a necessity of the education of women and kept the educational use of <Enaejeon> in mind as a means of practicing morality.