<쌍천기봉> 여성수난담의 특징과 그 의미

Abstract

Female characters in Ssangcheongibong are through sufferings because of the husbands' biased love, men's sexual desire, and their longing for love. The setting that women are through because of the women who become concubines as gisaeng or maids pays attention relating the suffering trigger's social position. Female characters are through social sufferings such as being thrown out of their house or exiled. A male character resists to the emperor strongly, which symbolizes order of the family and the power of the nation. The female characters who are through sufferings in Ssangcheongibong have in common in that they mostly suffer on the road and they go through mental sufferings because of their husbands. The ways of solving the sufferings are different. The main character, So Weolhye, has a special power and solve her problems herself and with a help of transcendental person at the same time. Looking into female characters' sufferings, we can see the fact that a family or power of the nation affects a woman than a man is suggested in Ssangcheongibong. The view of a man and a woman's sexual desire is different. A woman's sexual desire is completely thought to be negative and a man's sexual desire is thought to be negative if only it is a threat to a nation's system. In the history of novels, suffering on the road is strengthened in the story of female characters' sufferings in Ssangcheongibong compared with other novels. Its origin comes back to Sassinamjeonggi and SinSosel follows it. Sexual desire of the backward classes is strengthened, which is a unique characteristics that are distinct from other novels.