씨내리 소재 說話에 나타난 부부 간 권력관계의 불균형과 폭력의 문제 –남편의 폭력적 명령에 대응하는 아내의 행위 방식을 중심으로–

Abstract

This study investigated husbands’ structure of assaulting their wives sexually due to unbalanced hierarchy between couples through their orders and their wives’ acts to respond to them targeting 53 tales that feature surrogate fathers collected in the Collection of Korean Oral Literature. At this moment, the husbands’ ‘orders of the surrogate fathers’ delivered to their wives and ‘their acts’ to respond to it are shown in many different forms. First, when the husband’s orders are shown in a form of ‘sleeping together secretly’ and ‘non-verbal behaviors’, their wives’ ‘voices were deleted’ in the Narratives. Real intention of wives’ voices lost in the narratives is ‘silence by resignation’ or ‘intention of refusal’ ignored by their husbands and deliberately omitted by narrators. Second, when husbands unilaterally notify their wives of decisions of surrogate fathers, they are ‘obedient’ to them. The wives’ obedience to their husbands’ words is ‘adaptation due to threats that they will be faced with unless they will not approve’ or ‘their consent based on sex roles.’ Third, when wives ‘actively carry out their husbands’ orders of surrogate fathers’, wives ‘sleep together with men of surrogate fathers by tempting them’ by pressure of their husbands who stubbornly demand sleeping with other men. Or wives directly decide and sleep with surrogate fathers by ‘excessively reflecting’ their husbands’ worries about succession in themselves.