고전장편소설과 여성의 효의식 -<유효공선행록>과 <옥원재합기연>을 중심으로-

Abstract

This thesis aims to examine different aspects of women's filial piety in Korean classical long novels. It is possible to measure conservatism of novels by means of women's status in novels because in those days women were regarded to be subordinate under the patriarchy. Yoohyogongsunhaengrok(柳孝公善行錄) and Okwonjaehapgiyun(玉鴛再合奇緣) were selected for this research. Yoohyogongsunhaengrok(柳孝公善行錄) just focuses on hero's filial piety and describes that women's filial piety only belongs to husband's parents. There is no consideration of heroin's situation or mental state. This is related with the inclination of the novel that supports the patriarchy under the confucianism and holds fast to discrimination by social position. On the other hand, Okwonjaehapgiyun(玉鴛再合奇緣) focuses on heroin's trials and pays attention to women's situation. Especially it emphasizes that women's filial piety belongs not only parents in law but also their own parents. The equitable idea about women's filial piety is based on the view of human that all men are equal. The differences of two novels mentioned above shows there are many levels in Korean classical long novels which have been regarded as conservative works. Therefore diversified methods of research are necessary to recover the differences of Korean classical long novels and to properly estimate the value.