<화용도>에 나타난 ‘몸’의 형상화와 그 의미

Abstract

This paper is intended to peresent the meaning of the body in <Hwayongdo>. For the body is the material aspect of human, it can be seen anywhere in the text. So in this paper, I perent the general way of body's presentation in old Korean novel and interpret its meaning in cultural context. And I show <Hwayongdo> as a special case. In the Korean old novel, the body is presented in the respect of mind-body monism. The body is a conclusion of mind. It reflect the moral state. Therefore good man is good-looking, and evil one is bad-looking. This way of presentation is a conclusion of Confucianism. In this moral idea, one must cultivate his morals and then manage the family and at last have to serve the country. One can not have individual meaning without the connection with community. So the body is a object which reflect the will of one to realize the meaning, and the result. <Hwayongdo> is a text which deviate from such moral respect of body. In spite of sodiers not being evil, they are dying very funny. But these death can not be decorated with the tragedy of war. They choose meaningless death on purpose. In these choices we can read their will to resist the force of community which will place their death into some idea. The concrete and fun death of soldiers indicate their individual dignity and its end. And there can be seen many wounded bodies in <Hwayongdo>. The wounded body are the proof of the violence of war. But at the scene in which the injury of wounded body is exhibited without any moral restriction, we can recognige that the injury show us not olny the violence of war but for the deviation from the civilization. with the deviation, we can confirm that a text of <Hwayongdo> challenge the established norm.