사극<연인>(MBC)의 등장인물 분석: 들뢰즈의 개념을 중심으로

Abstract

The historical drama Lovers(Aug.4∼Nov.18, 2023, 21 episodes) depicts the love and hardships of people during the Manchu War. This article seeks to understand Lovers in particular, regarding characters and narrative, these can be interpreted as Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical concepts that penetrate Spinoza’s philosophy, such as the “Becoming-Minority” and the “Univocity of Being.” In Lovers, Lee Jang-hyeon, who risked his life to protect the prisoners of war who wanted to live in a community, and Yu Gil-chae, Lee’s lover, can be said to be a woman who were reborn as minority characters through the events (Pure Events) of the Manchu War and their love. Gilchae’s minority status and egalitarian beliefs, which extend beyond the social mechanisms of the time (i.e., pushing against the idea of sexual chastity, the image of “a woman who was a prisoner of war and returned home,” and the norm that noble women should not work or earn money, demonstrated by Gilchae making and selling brassware in order to help the prisoners of war, war orphans, and blacksmith workers who gathered together), embody Deleuze’s univocity of being. The narrative of Lovers, told through depictions of Lee Jang-hyun, Yu Gil-chae, and their fellow characters, suggests that there is no higher value one can hold than that of life. Lovers is a story centered on the conflicting love stories of the main characters, Lee Jang-hyun and Yu Gil-chae. However, it is also a story about saving those who are suffering after becoming prisoners of war, and about the characters continuing their lives in solidarity and holding hands. Each character transcends the norms of class, race, and the time in which he or she lives, and each has a capacity of human conatus as a singular entity.