『삼국유사』에 나타난 모성의 존재 양상과 특성

Abstract

This paper is intended to examine existence aspects of maternity related pieces of work in 『Samgukyusa(Book of history of Three Kingdoms)』 and to look into features of maternity indicated in it. In 『Samgukyusa』, maternity is more showed than femininity, and following facts could be confirmed through existence aspects of pieces of work. First, it could be confirmed that the position of mother appears in proportion to that of a son. This shows us the fact that prologues has an interest in not the mother itself, but the son, and childbirth of a great son leads to self-realization as mother. Second, in most cases, prologues are written centering around mother-children relation. Therefore, the role of maternity was becoming more important in pregnancy, childbirth and bringing up children. nation, More attention was paid to social maternity than biological maternity. Secondly, as a result of examining features of pieces of work on the basis the will, love, and reason, which are subordinate constituent character, following detailed aspects and features could be confirmed. In 『Samgukyusa』, the divinity usually contained in ancient maternity was considerably cleaned out, instead, foresight was considered as important disposition. In addition, emotional love was only religiously stressed as abstract concepts, expressing in a considerably weakened form and it could be known that relatively reasonable ability able to find sources or secret of life was stressed. Through such aspects, it could be known that, in those days, 'performing mother's role' was considered more important than 'becoming mother'. It could be also known that the image of ideal mother that could lead her children was being made with a strong decision in the process of bringing up her children, while stressing mother's role toward society. However, such maternity was necessary for only home and society. So, it could be known that, at times, the maternity was oppressed in the patriarchal atmosphere. Such a study is, to some degree, expected to contribute not only to examining female image of 『Samgukyusa』but also to tracking social constituent aspects of then current maternity.