童僧의 극화책략과 의미

Abstract

This Thesis was written for the purpose to clarify the writer's expression intention through an analysis of the Conflict, the Plot and its Gist of Ham Se-Deuk's Play Dongseung(Child Buddhist Monk). As the Dongseung is pointing out as the most extinguished work among Ham Se-Deuk's Works, its dramatic composition is very solid. Especially, in development of the plot, since the conflict and reversal were closely organized, its dramatic effect is exposing very well. By focusing on such point, I have analyzed the dramatic characteristics of Dongseung. In analyzing the main conflict between the structure of plot and the key characters, this literary work is not the contents with regard to the religious asceticism. This Work deals with an ontological problem that the child who was abandoned by the unlucky fated parents, after becomes a Buddhist monk by the help of the Chief Buddhist Monk, was suffering his psychological conflict, instinctively yearning for his mother. This is proving through the fact that the protagonist, Donyum's mind was fully filled with the desire to meet his mother than the asceticism for the Buddhism. On going along such way, from the introductory part reaching to the ending up collapse, in order to realize the desire only, he was even violating action against the religious precept of the Buddhism. In other words, in order to make a pretty muffler for giving to his mother, he has committed the life-killing several times likely as hunting the rabbit, and even tells a lie to hide his crime. To Donyum, this can be said as a token that the Affection(Heaven's Piety) towards his mother takes priority over the Asceticism. Such dramatic signification is exposing through also Donyum's personality change. At the first time, Donyum shows his attitude as an ascetic that carefully awaiting for his mother. After his finding about the neighboring lies around and the vanity of his awaiting, he becomes having a strong volition willing to return back himself to the common world for finding his mother. Then, upon the preach of the Chief Buddhist Monk, acting as the dramatic function of the antagonist, he usually opposed against it and ending up the collapsing, he eventually escapes from the Buddhist temple secretly and finally returns to the common world. Hereby, Donyum breaks away from the conflict with the Chief Buddhist Monk. Viewing this scene at the position of the Chief Buddhist Monk, even though Donyum assumes the secularizing signification degenerating to an apostatized Buddhist monk, however, if it views at the position of himself, it has the significance of the ideal-realization that finally entering into the common world where he ever heartily wished. If it notices about the development of plot as well as Donyum's character change process, it is judging that the latter's interpretation is more apposite. In brief, Ham Se-Deuk's Play Dongseung could be said as the dramatic discourse with regard to the human-being's ontological problem through a boy's psychological conflict who became a Buddhist Monk regardless his own mind. Although he stands on the position of a child Buddhist monk who practice the asceticism of Buddhism, realistically receiving the Chief Buddhist Monk's care, there is an outpouring desire in his inner side that wishes to live together with his mother and play himself to the full heart just like the world's other ordinary children. This displays that to those children, the instinct and impulse precede than the religious ideology or the ideal notion, the Chief Buddhist Monk's(adult's) Sense of Values. Therefore, it could be said that the writer has attempted to emphasize such thing is namely children's natural feature. If extend the writer's such intention, it has a criticizing significance about the behaviors of adults which force him to be infused the desire of adult to a child without any consideration about child's thought or situation. Such thing can be watchable from the action of the Chief Buddhist Monk that he intended for Donyum to be reached nirvana by means of seclusion from the common world, having his stiffened thinking-way and prejudice saying as the common world is merely ‘Criminal Slough’ in view of the Chief Buddhist Monk's past experience. Differently from the Chief Buddhist Monk's Will, Donyum's such opposition against the Chief Buddhist Monk's insistence is explaining as the resistance against the irrational notions of such saints. Accordingly, it could be reached the conclusion as the writer quite attempted to express through this Work that the helping for the child to live childishly is more natural and desirable.