사기(史記) 「자객열전(刺客列傳)」 ‘형가전(荊軻傳)’의 서사 기법 연구

Abstract

This paper attempt to study the embodiment of Jingke in The Biography of the Assassins in the Historical Records, focusing on the literary characteristics by way of attention to the fact that Sima Qian embodies the spirit of scholarship of representing the righteousness as a common denominator of the assassin and chivalrous fighter. Sima Qian used the incident that Jingke tried to murder the First Qin Emperror, and delicately described the igniting process of his feelings and atmosphere in achieving the rebellion. Making public the similarity as a name for Jingke, followed by the three tales in times when Jingke was wandering around, these tales illuminated Jingke's personality called ''good reading fencing'', at the same time playing the plot role of the entire theme and ending in the story of Jingke. The developing epitasis embodied the appearance of The Crown Prince Dan filled with the resentment and the revenge thus ignoring the desperate advice by Gukmu, showing the contradictory underplot and double track of righteousness and suspicion in sequence of ''Jingke-Tianguang–The Crown Prince Dan.'' The encounter of Jingke with scholar Tianguanggave the chance to be introduced to The Crown Prince Dan and to be selected as an assassin. These righteous ''Jumu-Tianguang-Jingke'' persons show the conflicting relationships due to the hasty, suspicious, and greedy foolishness of the Crown Prince Dan. In addition to this, the relationship structure between ''Tianguang-Jingke'' and ''The Crown Prince Dan - Fanwuqi'' realized the trust and righteousness, highlighting the conflicting aspects of ''The Crown Prince Dan-Jingke'' structured as righteousness and suspicion. The Crown Prince Dan offered a mission of assassin, which generated the Jingke's conflicting feeling as the chivalrous fighter good at both literacy and military arts. Sima Qian depicted the appearances of Jingke through the tales of Lujujian and Gaojianli, structuring dilogical hierarchy, simultaneously embodying the character as realizing the stage of ''A scholar dies for the person who recognizes himself.'' In particular, it can be seen that the psychological driver to pursue self-realization is working, although what the self-attended brother-in-law pursued is moral, honor, and achievement. It is meaningful to examine Sima Qian's excellent narrative technique, which depicts the fate of this unlucky character, as a scholar with a wide range of perspectives and qualities to read the situation at the time.