「요로원야화기」의 가치 갈등과 그 의미

Abstract

It has been known that 「Yorowonyahwagi」(요로원야화기)is a novel written by Park Du Se(박두세) in the late Joseon dynasty. This study has noticed the important compositional axis of the novel and stressed on its function and significance in the work for the debate. With the issue of identifying ultimate frame of composition, conversation and reading the poetry were used to contemplate the function and significance of those methods. Value conflict based on different value of characters takes important role in epic. The epic was composed as that a stranger got to meet someone in an inevitable situation and shared a heated conversation eventually straying apart. The important factor leading the epic is based on different value that was established accordant to the background of the characters. The different value makes important variable to lead the conversation and reading the poetry which are important methods to make the work. In addition it creates the vital principle of the composition filling the meaningful part of contents and the formality. As the formality to show value conflict, the novel uses conversation and reading the poetry actively. These two elements show directly the process or the direction of value conflict. Through conversation it shows the value conflict progressing with severe strain, while reading the poetry shows the value conflict reached to the situation relaxed. These two elements take the role to show the characteristic of value conflict harmoniously. They makes the epic stringent as well as relaxed. Those methods of conversation and reading the poetry utilized as the value conflict determine the significance of the work. The novel shows how to begin conversation with a stranger, how the conversation progresses, and which solution can be made when the conversation eventually falls into failure. Ultimately this work delivers us the meaning that we have to respect the whole steps of communication and its conclusion in itself. This novel has a certain significance in the sense it shaped the issue that the people in those days considered as important in the literature.