<부장양문록>에 나타난 남매 관계의 양상과 기능

Abstract

Bujangyangmunrok is a heroine novel with the characteristics of the family novel and the heroine is set as the older sister among siblings, not only daughter. This setting, which deviates from the general grammar of heroine novels, gives the younger brother a special fictional status and makes this work of a different nature from the short female hero novels. The sister and brother of Bujangyangmunrok are contrasting characters, forming individual narratives enriching the content of the work in both quantity and quality. Originally, the sister was close to a “hero” and her brother was close to a “man of virtue” but by her brother, who plays the role of a patriarch, she gradually gave up her role in the family and court to him. He replaces his sister’s role as the eldest son of the family, the contributor to the court, and the leader of the battlefield. In addition, he later plays a decisive role in revealing her idetity and her marriage. So he can be said to be a person who limits the life of his sister to the realm of traditional women and limits the gender role. The brother of the heroine is a character who competes with and watches her for the position of the primogeniture and eventually replaces her. This brother-sister relationships reflects the reader’s intention to accept women in social ethics of the time and can be said to be a novel reproduction of the difficult-to-overcome patriarchal system.