해체주의 비평적 관점에서 본 「무정」

Abstract

The theory of deconstructivism is from the cognition that the language that we use in real life is ambiguous and slippery. Deconstructivism is skeptical about correlation between signifier and signified, and denies the representation ability of the symbol. It also makes us possible to examine oppressive ideology which is from not only our daily life but also in the novel. This paper looks into deconstructive meanings of heroes and heroines focusing on identity. Then it deconstructs overall meanings of the novel in the view of ideology and binary opposition of language. Finally, it abstracts the true meaning of the work which was oppressed by ideology and cultural power. True characters of heroes and heroines are not found if identities are deconstructed focusing on true characters. Heroes and heroines continue their journeys to find their true colors. Park Young-chae tries to be a new human being after she was rescued by Kim Byung-wook, and Lee Hyung-sik goes United States to study science. These are all their efforts to find identities; however, in the deconstructive view, these are all false images. If MooJung is simplified in binary opposition of language, it is a conflict between Western culture and traditional culture, English thoughts and Korean-Chinese emotions, the new generation and the old generation, and new morals and traditional morals. Among all of these conflicts, former ones are superior to latter ones. They are ideologically superior. They ideologically oppress latter ones. Park Young-chae represents former ones, and Lee Hyung-sik represents latter ones. However, when we see the novel in the deconstructive view, former ones deconstruct latter ones. The reason that MooJung still has vitality is that it is born again and again by deconstructing its contradictive structure by itself.