구비설화에 나타난 노인 세대의 자식에 대한 기대 수준과 가족관* ‘친딸보다 나은 양아들(양아들이 효도하기/411-5)’ 유형으로 본 ‘재산증여’와 가족의 해체/재구성

Abstract

According to the senior’s cultural/social position is changed in this aged society otherwise pre-modern traditional society, the aged generation is suffering from the crisis of self-regard. This paper aimed to re-organize of the senior-parents discourses with the viewpoint of anticipation toward their children and values of the family through analyzing oral folk tales. This paper focused on the change of relationship between senior-parents and children when it occurred in inheritance of property and analyze the meaning of money as a qualitative changes amongst family members,senior-parents psychology and imagination which shows their desire to filial duty, as it were, strong expectation of mental royalty and material supporting from their children than blind bloody tie. To explain this issues, this paper analyzed the Folklore Type No. 411-5 ‘an Adoptive son than bloody daughter(filial duty of adoptive sun)’ amongst Hankuk kubimunhak daekye. Undutifulness of biological child occurred when their living together with their senior-parent was extended over a long period of time or when they inherited a fortune from their parent. The child-generation judges that the more the child have a property, the more they should have responsibility toward their parent. However,psychologically they were positioning themselves as a child who suffered from lack of love from parent, by doing so rationalized their undutifulness toward their parents. The parents who succeeded to all of property to their child-generation were regarded as ‘’surplus-family’ by their children, and encountered economical,social crisis instantly. However, they received this painful experience as their internal emotion. Even they decided to run away from home without money, but they never revealed their complained feelings to their children and never demand to filial duty. In this Folklore Type 411-5, the senior-parent prefer to roaming,begging and committing suicide than living together with their children who dislike or felt uncomfortable with them. This means,in fact, disorganization of family. Moreover, they adopt the other young man who showed hospitality toward them, because they regarded such attitude as serious filial duty. This means reorganization of family. In such process, the senior-parent showed their extremely-elated anxiety; they demanded to the man who became their adoptive son valued serious filial duty than their love toward their baby. On the other hand, when some problem occurred with regard to property right between bloody-child and adoptive one, the one demanded to dissolution of adoption or made dissolution of adoption. For that reason, it occurred another forms of disorganization of family. 90% amongst the storytellers of that type of folk tales are old generation over 60’s. As a result there were reflected anticipation value and anxiety of their child’s undutifulness toward themselves and a imaginative logic which worked in the narratives. The Folklore Type No. 411-5 touched the topic ‘what is the serious filial duty’ and answered that it should embrace the concepys of caring,affecting, and considering toward their parents emotionally,psychologically, and materially. And also this type of folk tales showed that the ‘donated property from parent to child worked as a direct opportunity to dis-rorganization and re-organization of family, by doing so it touched that there should existed some affective anticipation toward parent based on humanistic viewpoint and caring system amongst family members.