동아시아 <우렁각시> 유형 설화 속 여성의 삶 의미구현 방식

Abstract

This study examined the differences in ureonggaksi behaviors in South Korea, China, Japan, and Vietnam and the effect of women’s lives on the meanings of these behaviors. First, ureonggaksi behaviors were compared by country. Second, the lives of women in each country’s traditional society and their effect on ureonggaksi behaviors’ meanings were identified. The results showed that ureonggaksi behaviors varied by country. South Korean ureonggaksi were kidnapped by powerful people, betrayed, and forced to become their kidnapper’s wife or concubine. Chinese ureonggaksi killed their fathers when they opposed their marriages to men they loved and then went to live with those men. Japanese ureonggaksi returned to the sea when their children grew up despite efforts of the children’s fathers to convince them otherwise. Vietnamese ureonggaksi were strongly involved in men’s internal Korean ureonggaksi were influenced by the lower class of traditional society that lived faithfully to the desires of women, Chinese ureonggaksi were influenced by ethnic minorities that regarded women as property and oppressed and exploited them, Japanese ureonggaksi were influenced by the lives of Okinawan women who had parents and siblings they could return to at any time, and Vietnamese ureonggaksi were influenced by the lives of women who lived as the heads of households. Analysis of the behaviors of ureonggaksi in folktales in South Korea, China, Japan, and Vietnam showed that women in each of these countries lived differently in the traditional era. This result also helps us understand oral tales more deeply by showing how women’s lives are reflected in the behavioral patterns and meanings of their country’s ureonggaksi.