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Abstract

A Biography of a Vituous Hamyang Park Woman threw a severe question over the trend of Chosun Dynasty society which showed a enthusiastic concern with a virtuous woman, and then over the cause it did. It is, for the reason, thought to be a paradoxical vituous woman story. It developed the plot 'revelation,' 'concealment,' ‘contrast,' and 'reciprocity.' This paper mainly intended to clarify the meaning which became equivocal by 'revelation' and 'concealment', ‘contrast' and ''reciprocation', with the structural analysis of this work, A Story of a Vituous Hamyang Park Woman is composed of three parts such as 'a preface' 'a discourse about a chastity-keeping widow, and a discourse about a life-devoting widow' which are independent, contrastive, and reciprocal to one another 'A preface' attributed the cause of life-devoting trend to the law against a widow's remarriage and the edifying policy for subsequent 400 years. This edifying policy was carried out to infuse a woman ideology called a theory of chastity. And then the edifying policy was revealed as plausibly-beautified brainwash which was executed by deed public devices like a biograpy, a virtuous woman gate, a punishment for tergiversation. A first-person discourse that a life-devoting widow herself gave is a main one among discourses about a chastity-keeping widow. Its contents enabled us to believe that it was built to protest the woman ideology for a virtuous woman's chastity, because its contents focused on the exposure of unendurable sexual desire in youth. Nonetheless, focusing on the accomplishment of life-devotion, a true gentleman's comment completed it into a discourse about a virtuous woman, which was a temporizing strategy to conceal a chastity-keeping widow's counterattacking exposure with a logic of a virtuous woman and made it possible to be reminded of the reality of extreme life-devoting trend not to acknowledge as a virtuous woman in spite of her keeping chastity. 'A discourse about a life-devoting woman' in this paper was made up of the author's questions and answers based on governmental official's statements which were rumoured. Revealed Park's life is a typical one for a life-devoting woman produced in large quantities through brainwash for 400 years, after the law against remarriage was enacted. By the way, the author weaved 'preface' 'a discourse about a chastity-keeping widow, and a discourse about a life-devoting widow' by finishing the main plot with the last comment. An evidence, from A Biography of a Vituous Hamyang Park Woman, that the problem of a virtuous problem was recognized in a writing discourse that Park Jee Won discussed the trend of a virtuous woman with learned gentlemen in the University Building during YeolHah trip. Their discussion concluded the life-devoting trend as 'non-courtesy' and great infringement, which was dealt together with 'piety' 'loyalty' trend showed an atrocious aspect. Park Jee won, however, just delivered himself of the remarks of Chines gentleman in detail, but he only proved to the contrary of his critical point of view about the 'loyaltyㆍpietyㆍchastity' ideology by openly showing his attacking attitude about the trend of jeonjok. A Biography of a Vituous Hamyang Park Woman found faults with a woman ideology to destroy humanity by introducing a virtuous woman biography. The criticism in it obscured its main core on account of the alternating exposure and concealment of the ideology, which can be judged as literary strategy chosen by a work in the era where sung-ri science was the criterion to judge virtue, vice, right, and wrong.