출구 없는 여성, 여성적 시간의 식민화-1910년대 최찬식 소설의 ‘여학생’ 형상화-

Abstract

The schoolgirl characters in Choi Chan-Sik's Novels in 1910's are appeared very fascinatingly with the modern cultural signs such as school, park, zoo, institute, train and newspapers. But they are not expressed with the identity as schoolgirls in the coherence of truly modern narrative space. They don't show their growth through the school education and don't have any communicative competence with thier modern experience like love. As soon as they are married, they are adapted themselves to the family of their husband which is dominated by the old-fashioned ideas. They have new difficulties with their husband's mother who dislikes schoolgirls in the reason of their modern way of thinking, life styles and distorted view about them. But they adapt themselves to new circumstances by virtue of the traditional faithfulness. In the process, they loss their educational experiences and modern identities. The schoolgirl characters in the novels don't retain their modern life style any more, and don't have any capability about their problems such as a plot to do harm about infidelity. Some characters have a nervous breakdown from mental fatigue and try to suicide. Those are the male characters who major law or work as modern legal experts that solve the problems. The female characters don't try to find the reasonable solution by themselves. Finally they go with the new family which is composed by marriage. Such process show the cracked points in the modern society.