춘향전 개작본 <약산동대>의 개작 양상과 의미

Abstract

This paper aims at providing how to adapt <Chunhyangjeon> to <Yaksandongdae>. In <Yaksandongdae>, we could not find the love scene and the secret royal inspector scene. For what purpose were these changes made? And what was the textual effect? I want to explain the reason and the aspect of the adaption. In <Yaksandongdae>, hero and heroin whose social positions were different met as a true friend and promised a marriage. This composition of accident was very strange in the history of adaption of <Chunhyangjeon>. But in 1910's novels as like <Booyong Sangsagok>, <Cheongnyonhoisimgok>, it was very usual. This is understood that the needs of the times for liberal wedding was accepted to novel form. The mission of the intellectual for custom improvement was projected in the novel. The heroes in <Yaksandongdae> made from enlightening purpose were normative characters. They showed inflexible attitude toward liberal wedding. But their attitude did not arise from the confidence for such wedding, they wanted parents' permission and wanted to complete the wedding with a wedding ceremony. This feudal regression was not found in <Chunhyangjeon>. In <Chunhyangjeon>, the heroes chose each others and made love without regard to any custom. Meanwhile, it referred to this feudal regression that the scene of the secret royal inspector was reduced. Because the heroes did not have enough confidence, the new governor of Youngbyon was just an love obstructor not a symbol of feudal oppression.