20C초 몽유록의 현실 인식과 대응 방식

Abstract

There were many arguments to recognize the crisis that the Western countries had invaded the Eastern countries in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. They tried to find out the solutions. This thesis is to analyze these arguments through dreaming story which was created in the 1900s. The narrator, the writer's other self tried to comprehend the real danger through discussion and argument by a particular person in a story. This was the ways to cope with the urgent situations in those days. The urgent situations were the inner absurd aspects in Choseun Dynasty and many invasions by western countries, including Japan. Kim Gwang Sue had very critical attitude toward Japan Invasion. but he had positive attitude about western modernization and accepted them without any criticism. You Won Poo made an accurate judgement about the world's changing wave. So he claimed that not only Asian countries should keep cooperative power against the Western power, but also the armed forces should be put on a special alert against Japan. Park Eun Shik came to Manju as an exile after he had experienced the loss of national rights. He took time for self-examination about the direction which Korea would move forward. Therefore, he made some conclusions that they had to produce the new people and create the equal opportunity in society. In accordance with three people's situations and activities, they had different styles of reality recognition and confronting ways. It was clear that they had some limitations. But they got some positive valuation because they participated in reality positively through literal works and designed narrative strategy to persuade readers through conversation.