내면세계와 파편적 단상들 -천운영의 「당신의 바다」

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to illuminate what creative technique the writer Cheon Woon Young employed in disclosing the inner world of characters in her novel <Your Sea>and to illustrate the intention, implication and meaning of the story by unearthing the motives of behaviour and psychological problem of characters. <Your Sea> as the novel to deal with the course in which suffering is deepened due to the loss of identity and fail of desire realization in detail,disclosed the inner world through ‘the stream of consciousness’and ‘objective association(客觀的相關物)’technique. The stream of consciousness technique is the technique to illustrate the mentality and emotion of characters through free association with the continuum of everyday life experience not description of the character’s external world. The writer in this novel disclosed, through the stream of consciousness technique, the various types of phenomena experienced by the husband who suffers from somnambulismand is not able to stay at home even after the marriage though he wanted to have a house, and the wife’s difficulty to understand this. In this technique, thoughts of characters themselves are dealt with as a material and due to this, it is a useful method to illustrate the mentality and emotion of characters as the inner existence of a human being is not as logical as seem to be in its appearance. To newly disclose the inner world of characters, the writer also used the objective association techniquethat objectifies the psyche of characters or the theme of work through unique image, symbol, or event revealed through things. The writer revealed the pessimistic worldview of the protagonist who cannot settle down in any place and tragic end through a series of mutually supplementary situations in close and objective association with such things as ‘aquarium’, ‘eel’, and‘ sea’. In otriumwords, the writer sophisticatedly sketched out the inner world of the protagonist disclosing it as untypical by evocating the complicated, delicate feelings of characters through the stream of consciousness and objective association technique, allowing the reader to infer the motivation of problematic behaviours.