조선일보판 함세덕 <해연>의 부정한 어머니와 서브 내러티브

Abstract

“Haeyeon(Sea swallow)” by Ham Seduk was first released in 1940 by the Chosun Ilbo, and the adapted version of it was included in “Dongseung” the Collected Plays, published in 1947. To date studies have mainly dealt with the latter, but this paper mainly consid-ered the 1940 original to explain the initial plan and critical mind, apart from the com-pleteness of the work itself. As soon as the work released in 1940 was selected as the winner of the first prize in the annual spring literary contest of the Chosun Ilbo, Gohyeob the Korean theater company announced that it would be staged and both Gohyeob’s stills and Jeong Hyeonung’s illus-trations were included and released. This was a very rare form. The images included in here show a perspective of those days that helps to understand “Haeyeon”. When con-trasting the work, mainly these images, with play, the most actively interpreted scene is the part where the past of Jinsuk’s parents is depicted. When such a scene is added, the focus of the work does not move to the boy characters, such as Jinsuk and Sejin appearing in its adapted version, but to a matter of conflicts between the lighthouse keeper and Jinsuk’s mother, who are older generation persons, and to a matter of their choice. This awakens people to the fact that older generations’ problems can therefore become barriers and frustration to succeeding generations. In addition, when considering older gen-erations’ problems as a completed realistic constant in such a way, the significance of real-istic choice that bears the reality stands out. That is, “Haeyeon” is one of several ways to deal with the character of the time “unfaithful mother” found in the then works of writers of the Society for Research in Dramatic Art (writers including Yoo Chi Jin and Lee Gwang Rae) ―the work is the re-sult of the young playwriter Ham Se Deok’s efforts, the playwriter who accepted the crit-ical mind and character of the whole cultural world, including literary circles and drama companies, and then attempted to give a challenging answer of his own to the very critical mind and character. Notably, in Ham Se Deok’s “Haeyeon” the “unfaithful mother” who abandons her children and chooses to live her own life does not act as a mere person who has to be punished but as a cause of the present, and at the same time the boy characters from that cause help to easily move to the new historic question of the future of succeed-ing generations. In summary, it can be thought that such a structure itself points out the then problems, preparing for changes to come after then.