園文錄 所在 人物傳 연구

Abstract

Damwonmunlok, a collection of Wydang Jeong Inbo‘s works, contains four biographies. Wydang represented the lives of four characters- who lived their extraordinary lives under the Japanese rule,- on the frame of the descriptive structure, Beginning, unfolding, Ending, Concluding, maintaining a view of praising their virtues rather than of belittling them. The characteristic of those biographies is that all of them end in a tragic catastrophe. The tragic tendency results from the conflict between their sociopolitical background under the Japanese rule and Confucian Ideology emphasizing loyalty and filial piety. Compared to the life types of traditional tragic figures, the type of Na Wonhak is included in them in terms of his family, his intellectuality and his death. The types of Min Youngdal and Yi Heewon are generally coincident with the traditional tragic types, with the exception of their coming to death from their intellectuality. The Bak Seungik's type best fits in with them in all senses. The four biographies overcome a sophisticated but escapist attitude universally found in the Korean conventional biographies and take a succession of the prototype of traditional tragic figures from the early age. Wydang’s four biographies also have a significant meaning in the point of being identified the same patriotic spirit as was presented in the modern biographies.