‘여성’의 키워드로 읽는 장아이링(張愛玲)의 ＜색,계(色,戒)＞

Abstract

Eileen Chang was born and raised in Shanghai and had experience of a colony, concession, and war. However, she did not handle wars and resistance to Japan as important matter in her works. In the Eileen Chang’ works, these themes are used as background and a story of everyman or a love story between men and women strikes the keynote of the works. Moreover, it happens that metaphysical value is inverted by ordinary stories in her works. Lust, Caution is a story between a female spy and a traitor based on an actual assassination of the Nationalist Party officer. If the malefemale relationship is focused on unsophisticatedly when reading Lust, Caution, this novel could be interpreted into a story of touching devotion of a woman who sacrifices herself for love. However, not only Lust, Caution but Eileen Chang is not free from a bitter controversy in consequence of political issues brought by positions of two main characters. In the traditional ethical standards, female are recognized as the second sex and subordinate to men. The only choice female could choose was self-sacrifice in this ethical society. Since the entry into the modern era through revolution in through, female was endowed ‘Nora’ as the new phases of the times but nothing changed in reality. This article is aiming to interpret Lust, Caution with ‘female’ as a keyword. This writer would examine that how Wang Jiazi distorts herself when she was become ‘Nora’ in the actual battlefield of revolution even though she reached the grade of ‘Nora’ through participation of anti-Japanese play after answering the call of ‘revolution’. In addition, it would be analyzed that how she leaped after breaking out of Nora’s role. It is expected that this article could help to make a step forward for consideration of position and presence of ‘female’.