『옹고집전』에 나타난 眞假爭主의 숨은 문제 －正體性과 失傳 문제를 중심으로－

Abstract

‘Onggojipjeon’ is a literary work that presents the direction of proper living and the true nature of humanity based on the problem of truth and falsity contention. Onggojip was given the opportunity to look back his own life through 'Replicated Onggojip' created by an enlightened Buddhist monk, but the ideology and ethics of the society at that time that were revealed through the 'Replicated Onggojip' was protected as the absolute value armed with ethical norm that ignored real world circumstances. Because of this, Onggojip became a being isolated from social identity by the demand of the society at that time, and it could be seen that changes of 'Onggojip' could be regarded as passive modality that was not different from the modality of 'Replicated Onggojip'. And this was understood as one of the important problems of the truth and falsity contention that are contained in the literary work. Onggojip is a wicked man type of char- acter. Pansori, unlike other genre of literary art, appears to pay attention also to the human aspect different from the one demanded by the existing ethics and ideology. In other words, it pays attention to the value that ‘should be there’ that is demanded by society through highlighting the group of characters of negative aspects in the foreground of narration, and at the same time, it also discusses the character aspect that ‘is there’ existing at that time and its value of life. This new modality of life and diverse human aspects are revealed mainly as negative aspects, but the appearance of these characters can be regarded as playing the role of an advance guard point which points out acute contradictions and conflicts of the society at that time. But such negative character aspects succeeded in radically revealing the conflicts and contradictions of the society at that time, but could not preset alternatives to these. The character defects or stiff attitudes of life that such negative character aspects have became the objects of criticism, satire, and jokes, and reveal the limitations of having to be brought into the ethics and ideology that are demanded by the existing society.