<장자풀이>의 서사적 지향과 제의적 의미

Abstract

The purpose of this article is investigating the aim of narrative and ritual meaning of <Jangja-Puri>. First, Jangja is not the ordinary character that is regulated as an evil being, but some symbol of specific group that rules the ground space. Jangja shows an exclusive relationship between the heaven and ground, thereby he puts the certain meaning out of the text ‘incommensuration’. With the flow of narrative, Jangja gradually steps forward to the heaven space through the characters like daughter-in-law and fortune-teller. Finally Jangja throws gut, Korean traditional ritual form, when he confronts the ‘death’. So we can say that <Jangja-Puri> means some duty that people on the ground have to communicate with ‘the next world’ when they meet their own death. <Jangja-Puri> also shows a surrogate victim for sacrifice substitution by using the white horse as a scapegoat. Jangja should throw another gut named ‘Sitgim’ which means ‘washing’. This is the metaphor that people on the ground are required to exterminate the grudge of the death. Cause-and-effect relationship between grudge and misfortune is found here, so we can see the ritual meaning of <Jangja-Puri>. <Jangja-Puri> emphasizes not only on secular values, but also on the duty of people on the ground when the death comes to them. <Jangja-Puri> is a specific metaphoric narrative that we have to resolve the grudge of the death, thereby we can prevent ourselves from the misfortune by demolishing the wall between this life and the next life.