문헌설화 속 첩(妾) 소재 설화 연구-『기문총화』를 중심으로 -

Abstract

In this thesis, we are to look into the relationship between a man and his concubine through a tale about a concubine out of the literature tales and to find out about the meaning of the tale. They commonly say the reason that a man keeps a concubine is because of biological desire. Because a concubine is the object of relationship had by personal volition of a man, and because the status of women who become concubines is mostly low it is not very difficult to have relationship with them. However, in the tales when a man has a concubine biological desire is not at the center of a man’s keeping a concubine. Commonly ‘a concubine’ remind us of a woman who usually causes conflict between a man’s wife and his concubine and is jealous of and slander the man’s wife. However, in the tales, the occasions where conflict between a man’s wife and his concubine appeared directly are very rare. A concubine appears in the relationship with a man. A concubine supplements a man’s deficiency to open the road to success for him. The common point that appears in these concubines is that they observe the Confucian norms. It is similar to the behavior of a man’s wife, but in that a concubine cannot bear offsprings who can succeed to a man’s family she has a limit that she cannot have value same as that of a man’s wife. A concubine is an existence that supplements a man’s deficiency and, at the same time, is an object of management and control to maintain the system of a man’s family. Moreover, although a concubine cannot have the value same as that of a man’ wife, a concubine’s behavior to observe the Confucian norms is the aspect that makes aristocratic men manage their concubines easily.