<주생전>의 비극성 재고

Abstract

This study decided that the focus on the tragic aspect of Jusaengjeon limits the diverse understanding of the work, and examined it from new angles. The reason for understanding Jusaengjeon as a tragedy was thought to be that "describing the character - who failed to realize his desires due to social and realistic hardships and was frustrated - as a tragedy" should be linked with the viewpoint of a critical intellectual writer's of a Jeonkisoseol(傳奇小說). According to existing discussions, the tragedy of Jusaengjeon came from the triangle love story involving three male and female characters ending up a failed love. To closely examine such discussions, the lovers were shed with new light, and the possibility of love fulfillment through open ending was explored. As a result, in the work, Baedo played a mediating role in helping Jusaeng and Seonhwa realize their love, so he was not a part of the members in the triangle-love, and only Jusaeng tried to love Seonhwa. Clues for the possibility of their love being realized were found. The lovers were all living humans, survived until the end of the work, and did not change their minds to each other. Through the later talk which hinted at the war being ending, the possibility of their love being realized was derived. In Jusaengjeon, the open possibility of Jusaeng realizing his love opened the possibility to interpreting the work differently unlike existing studies which regarded the ending of the work as a failure to realize the character's love and thus as a tragedy. Pursuit of personal desires was not necessarily suppressed and frustrated. Opening the possibility of desires being realized could lead to deriving the positive aspect of a character who pursued his personal desires. This suggests not the desire of a character who was the normally accepted or desire-driven - success-pursued- socially ideal character, but the desire for pursuing the personal well-being or happiness or a shift of recognition not involving improper values. In Jusaengjeon, Jusaeng's desire to pursue the realization of love neutralized the unbalance of the viewpoint on desire value evaluation. In later-on novels, this develops into the combination with social desires or into the diversity of personal desires, leading to worldly propensities.