일본 중세 설화에 나타난 질투 관념 - 『발심집(發心集)』, 『고금저문집(古今著聞集)』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study aims to reveal Japanese medieval narratives with focusing on the way in which the jealousy-motifs extend the literary role through the combination with the symbolic meaning of the snake-motif as a part of the study to see how the jealousy-motifs in Japanese classical literature are literally changed. In Japanese buddhist narratives "Konjaku Monogatarishu“(circa 12th Century), it contains a negative view of the jealousy of women. In later medieval narratives such as "Hotsinshu" and "Kokonchomonju", women's jealousy-motifs combined with the symbolic image of the snake played an important literary role in drawing the subject of the whole story. Especially, in "Kokonchomonju", the woman that has jealous feelings turns into a snake and puts a direct harm on her husband. At that time, women would not have been able to express their anger directly at the husband's affair. Literary works have made it possible to express the degree of grudge by adding an unrealistic device that transforms a woman into a snake. By combining the image of jealousy-motifs with the image of a snake and expressing strong anger, story leads to the death of characters in the end. The view of jealousy in that time let jealous motif to combine with snake motif, which would be to highlight the idea topic that the speaker would like to say.