<명주보월빙>의 여성수난담과 서술자의식

Abstract

This thesis aims at considering aspects of women's sufferings in saga Myeongjubowolbing and abstracting a narrator's awareness from it. Heroins in Myeongjubowolbing have sufferings in homes and from women in common. These women suffer because the head of a family does not play his role, or because the another wives of her husband or because of their husbands' strong sexual desire. They are entrapped to surrendering their integrity or are close to hunger to die. But these can be purposeful and abstract sufferings rather than realistic sufferings in that they are means to spread Confucianism. Among various sufferings, physical sufferings, especially, are brought into relief and these women wear men's clothes and lost their ways. After all, they are helped by transcendental being and the place and get comfortable, which is intended by a narrator who shows his fate determinism. These women overcome their sufferings by themselves, which shows their status in a novel and which shows men are heroes only on surface area but women is real heroes. The women who suffer in Myeongjubowolbing suffer from physical pains but they don't talk about their sufferings. These aspects are related with the fact that they have strong Confucianism. This also shows a narrator's awareness that he tries to preserve a patriarchal system. On the other hand, even though a narrator was not likely to intend, he or she must remember that readers were emotionally influenced by the process that the women go through and overcome sufferings.