대하소설 속 종창(腫瘡) 모티프 연구

Abstract

The carbuncle motif in river novels is the most frequent epidemic of this genre, playing a major role in the narrative structure and theme consciousness. The carbuncle motif is employed as a mechanism to express inner agony caused by extreme conflicts among characters, heaven’s punishment of evil, and inferiority of a silly man. The carbuncle motif has important implications. The motivation for the maximization of internal anguish is to express internal anxieties when an anguished and prideful person is in conflict with another while in a weak position. The aggravation of the anguish is the process of maximizing the conflict. The process of culling and curing is in tune with the gradually resolving conflict. The motif of the evil figure as a model for the evil act is not human punishment but heavenly punishment of the heavenly power, that invites readers to establish a strong conspicuous composition of the promotion of virtue and admonishment of vice by evoking a compelling ideology of good and evil. The motifs employed to represent superiority and inferiority are utilized as the basis of “distinction” that amplifies the inferiority and ridiculousness of the lower or inferior, while the bodies of the differentiated and travestied are proportional to their class and cultural level It visualizes disgust and inferiority, making them interested in upper class readers and confirming their superiority. The carbuncle motif plays an important role in epicurean law, realizing “aesthetics of ugliness” in a novel by providing intense stimulation and emotional ventilation through pus and stench.