<유씨삼대록> 여성수난담의 성격과 서술자의식

Abstract

This thesis aims at considering aspects of women's sufferings in saga novel, Yussisamdaerok(유씨삼대록), and explaining its characteristics. The female characters' sufferings usually come from their husbands. Yang Byeokju and Princess Jinyang suffer most among female characters. Yan Byeokju goes to Wui to keep away from the queen Chang, which means that tyranny of the man of power is strong. Princess Jinyang seems to kill herself, which shows a patriarchal system gives women strong sufferings. Female characters' mental sufferings are weighted by their husbands' alienated heart, large mind and doubt of surrender their integrity. Social sufferings are hardly shown. But Princess Jinyang voluntarily goes to the palace from her husband's house, which is from her own decision on the surface but on the other side, she is similar to her being booted off. In this work, sufferings are solved by patriarch or her own. Seen through sufferings in Yussisamdaerok, the narrator puts emphasis on the role of the second head of a family and shows agony the nation power gives women. Even a prostitute thinks her fidelity, which shows that fidelity ideology affects not only the lower classes but also the higher classes. In the process of solving sufferings, transcendental world does not appear, which means the real world is thought to be important. Compared with the first part of the work, in the second part Yussisamdaerok sufferings is caused by the problems between couple instead of sufferings caused by ideology of filial piety. And the strength of sufferings is weakened compared with the first part. They have in common in that transcendental world does not intervene, but in the second part a patriarchal system seems to be strengthen. In the second part a critical mind that appears in the first part is faded and a typical mind from a patriarchal system appears, which ends up popularizing it.