「광화사」에 나타난 사랑과 욕망의 변화양상

Abstract

A character in the story is the character created by the narrator's intention. Thus, the actions of the characters in the novel are the devices representing the faith of the narrator. The narrator provides the characters in his work with intrinsic functions according to his intention. In this paper, I tried to critically accept Kwanghwasa, Kim, dong-in's short story, under the above precondition. The one who tries to suppress and control his own desire suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. Solgeo in Kwanghwasa has obsessive compulsive disorder since he tries to draw a beauty who resembles his mother. It is fine that the object of one's love exists as an image in the romantic love. The woman Solgeo looks for needs to have his mother's image rather than what she is. To him a woman is the object of his love and the substitute of his mother at the same time. The female character who functions this role is the blind woman. The blind woman is an instrumental being to him. This romantic love is perverted into erotic love. However, because she has the image of Solgeo's mother, that kind of love makes him feel guilty. Due to that the blind woman is converted to the object of his hatred from the object of his love. Even though the blind woman looks like the one with desire herself, she stays forever as the other because of the man's twofold eyes. The ending given to the woman who becomes the one is death. Through the death she turns into the one escaping the image of mother. But even this process was achieved by the man, Solgeo. Thus, we need to critically accept the meaning of the woman that is unconsciously provided from the perspective of androcentrism.