<虞裳傳>硏究

Abstract

This thesis studies for the theme and structure of <Woo-Sang-Chon 虞裳傳-a life of woosang-> that was written by Yon-am(燕巖) Park, Ji-Won(朴趾源) in his early age of thirty. The hero of this story is an official interpreter, Lee, Un-Jin(李彦瑱), who was a contemporary with the writer Park, Ji-Won. His Writing is excellent but he was not acknowledged properly because of his low social position of an interpreter, so he lived in obscurity and passed away at early age. Yon-am wrote this story to express regret at his death. Therefore, the superficial theme of this story is the criticism for the closed nature of the Chosun dynasty(朝鮮王朝) not to measure person's ability as it is due to the different party or the low social position. And this story is set in Gyemi Envoy's(癸未通信使) journey to Japan, and the main story is the achievements in Japan and the poetry of travel of Woo Sang who had been with Gyemi Envoy. Woo Sang went to Japan with Envoy as an interpreter and then he demonstrated his literary talent and it was acknowledged, and he wrote a poem for what he had seen during Japan journey in detail. The writer, Yon-am expressed for not only pointing out the closed nature of selection of fit person for higher position in the Chosun dynastic Society but also showing the necessary of right understanding of Japan based on correct information through Woo Sang's experience in Japan and his poetry.