식물 유래담에 투영된 현세주의적 가치관

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine ordinary people's sense of value of life reflected in the plants derivation tale. According to the research results so far, such type of tale was considered to reflect naive desire of the ordinary people who wished to live a comfortable life even though the main character of the tale suffered in the life. But, it is nothing but ostentatious meaning of plants derivation tale. Different from it, the tale reflected secular desire of ordinary people. Plants derivation tale shares narrative structure of ‘suffering and death of the main character and rebirth as flower.’ To solve suffering of the real life through weak method of death of the main character can be seen as a dramatic mechanism to realize tragedy of the legend as this type of tale belongs to legend. And, to achieve the objective as derivation tale, it simply handled the process of suffering and solution of the main character. And, the narrative structure of ‘death and rebirth as flower’ in the plants derivation tale shows ordinary people's secularism based sense of value. In our shamanism, flower is a symbol of regeneration and rebirth, and rebirth is the central idea of Buddhism. Therefore, rebirth as flower is the reflection of secularism based sense of values of our nation that selected the life in this world instead of life after death.