한국오페라에 나타난 여성 인물의 유형 특성 연구

Abstract

As a tangible study, this study is targeting people who appeared in theKorean Contemporary Opera. Among them, the purpose is to find newpossibilities by identifying the types of female characters and related narrativestructures and analyzing their characteristics and changes. In the Koreanopera, analyzing the existential characteristics centering on female charactersis considered a necessary task to diversify the selection of opera materials. To this end, from a feminist theoretical point of view, the forms of femalecharacters are reproduced in the Korean opera was classified. One of thereasons for the lack of popularity of Korean opera is the flat narrativedevelopment based on the selection of clichéd materials. Therefore, the typeof character also shows a stereotyped pattern, and in particular, which hasbeen centered on men, it can be seen that female characters are moresuperficial and reproduced in pre-modern forms. When Western opera,which is divided into four types of female characters as victims, obstructors,assistants, and saviors, was compared to Korean opera, the female charactersof Korean opera were classified into two types, victims and assistants,showing different patterns. The first type, victims can be seen as oppressionaccording to the frame of a virtuous woman or filial daughter in our opera,where Confucian ideology works strongly, and as the second type, most female characters who do not sacrifice themselves are only assistants or justneighbors of male characters. However, in recent years, women in theKorean opera have also tended to be portrayed as enterprising people whocan express individuality and subjectivity. These changes are also related tothe tendency of diversification and multilaterality of sanctions. In addition,from a feminist perspective, it can be seen that modern opera has begun tocapture the spirit of the times that can be sympathized. It is hoped that thechange in the type of female Korean opera characters examined through thisstudy will have a forward-looking effect on the development of KoreanContemporary opera in the future.