<춘향전>에 나타난 여성 갈등과 층위의 문제

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between Chunhyang and other kisaengs in the 103 versions of Chunhyangjeon collected in <The Collection of Chunhyangjeon>, giving attention to that the characters conflicts in <Chunhyangjeon> were not limited between Chunhyang and the town governor Byun and that there appeared many kisaengs other than Chunhyang. As the result, it has been found out in the 57 versions that Chunhyang and other kisaengs were in the conflicting relationships. Their conflicts were layed out mostly within the limit from the bachelor Lee's going to Hanyang for the civil service examination and Chunhyang's being beaten by lashing. The kisaengs raised the problem that Chunhyang was still a kisaeng even while she was trying to keep fidelity, and Chunhyang who rejected to be a kisaeng any longer was in conflict to the other kisaengs' attitude that considered her still one. After all, the conflicts between Chunhyang and other kisaengs can be thought as caused by the limit of her class as a two-fold 'Other', being both a woman and a kisaeng, which was created by the society of the age. At that time women could be given their identities or values mostly by men. Different from other kisaengs, Chunhyang was given her place as a specific 'Other' through the bachelor Lee. By that, the characters classes were differentiated, and their conflicts could be seen resolved. Therefore, the conflicts between Chunhyang and other kisaengs in <Chunhyangjeon> proved the existence of the class problem between women, and had the function to remind the magnetic-field of the ideology of the day through which even love and fever could express their meanings when they were subject to men.