崔明翊 小說에 나타난 隱喩

Abstract

This paper is an analysis on the various metaphors in Choi, Myung-ik's novels. Choi Myung Ik's writings illustrate the charactersinner consciousness and personality through figurative speech on objects, places, time, and happenings. Many sicknesses including consumption, cancer, beriberi, typhoid, drug addiction, neurasthenia, and venereal disease are used metaphori- cally in Choi, Myung-ik's novels. Figuratively, sickness in novels shows the vulgarity of modern capitalism and the gloomy inner consciousness of the intellectual. Particularly in Choi, Myung-ik's writings cancer shows abnormal growth, meaning tenacity for substance while consumption illustrates exhausted vitality that implies a desire to be spiritually purified. There also appears metaphoric expressions using diverse places in Choi, Myung-ik's novels including streets, houses, factories, stores, inside trains, and palaces(old constructions). This figure of speech reflects the characters' longing for a valuable life through the conflict and confrontation that happens in the characters' inner senses. These include tradition and modernization, candidness(opening) and closure, the multitude and the individual, external reality and the internal world, material and soul. Choi, Myung-ik uses figurative speech with various animals, plants, objects, and happenings such as cats, cows, toads, fish, pine trees, rail travels, cars, and the rainy season as well. This kind of metaphor helps to express the characters' personality and the main theme effectively. Particularly, rain portrays the melancholy period, trains intervene observation and reminiscence with reaching to self-awareness.