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Abstract

This paper is the result of analyzing the Netflix drama The Glory, which discourse on the issue of school violence, from the perspective of ‘revenge play as self-therapy’. Based on sociological discussions on the concept and method of ‘literary (art) therapy’, the nature and damage of violence, Moon Dong-eun decided to take private revenge as a legitimate anger and self-rescue, and conducted private revenge as a retaliatory justice. Moon Dong-eun’s private revenge is a tragedy that presupposes self-destruction. However in the process of executing revenge, the process of imprinting the cruelty and seriousness of school violence on the perpetrator’s surroundings and properly expressing his anger that has been suppressed for 18 years is no different from self-therapy. It is also a process of self-therapy that assistants who participated in Moon Dong-eun’s private revenge sympathize with his wounds and pain without turning a blind eye. Therefore The Glory can be said to be a revenge play that mourns the victims of violence by acquiring moral justification and implementing retaliatory justice thanks to the perpetrator who refused to apologize, despite the fundamental limitations of private revenge outside the rule of law. In conclusion it was confirmed that Moon Dong-eun’s private revenge as self-therapy, which began with a righteous anger as a strong emotion arising from the sense of safety of survival, was a literary healing process that encompasses the functions of introspection, comfort, play, and talk. Accordingly The Glory can be evaluated as a text that shows the possibility of literary (art) therapy through the genre of ‘revenge play as self-therapy’. However in order to derive a specific method of ‘literary therapy using dramas’, the process of viewers’ emotional identification of dramatic situations leading to self-therapy through retaliatory justice through private revenge should be analyzed at the receptive aesthetic level. In a follow-up study, the correlation between self-therapy in the drama text and self-therapy through the viewer’s emotional response will be investigated.