「옛우물」에 나타난 신화적 상상력 연구

Abstract

This paper aims to look into the motif of life, death and eternity in Oh, Jeong Hee's An Old Well by myth criticism. In work, Archetypical images like an old well, a tree, and death form metaphoric mode and human's psychology including woman. Such various symbolic words present the mythical pattern which is very closely related to human experience such as death and life, the desire of vanished world, taboo and violation. In other words, An Old Well shows not only middle aged woman's life which search for self identification as a housewife but also furthermore contains the deep swamp of existence and universal nihility through the repetitive ‘fullness’ and ‘emptiness’ of the well. We also know that the circulating structure figured in work has connection with modern society and social․historical fact. Therefore, Oh, Jeong Hee's An Old Well is the present work in terms of considering that it leads a discontinuous existence to the world of eternity.