由“月梅”到“香夫人” ― 以中国朝鲜族女作家金仁顺的《春香》为中心

Abstract

Among the three elements of the story ― character, plot, and setting, the character matters the most. W. H. Hudson argues that technically the success of a work is due to the depiction of characters. In the recreation of Chunxiang, Jin Renshun deconstructed and reshaped the Korean classical work ― “the story of Chunxiang”, changing the figures of the work greatly by adding new characters, remaking the mother of Chunxiang. In doing so, the classical work is rich in new vitality and the air of new era. The writer has ever said: “There are no new things under the sun. Times and regions may be different, but the humanity is always the same.” Neglecting the historical background and feudal patriarchy, in a conceived Utopian Champs, the writer wrote the stories of one or more women from the perspective of humanity. She narrated the Chinese reflections on life in the tongue of the Korean classic, and brought about the exotic culture to Chinese contemporary literature. In “the story of Chunxiang”, as a custodian, Yuemei who was regarded as a minor character, decided the identity of Chunxiang, while she made an contrast to the noble “Chunxiang”. However, in the novel Chunxiang, the snobbish Yuemei was turned into another major character, an elegant and plump Mrs. Xiang, and saved Chunxiang at the critical moment. The best way of appreciating a work is analyzing the characters. The characters and the theme are closely related, and the characters are the core of the whole story, which have great influence on the work. There no telling of the story without characters. “Chunxiang”, the first Korean work accepted by Chinese, did a lot of contribution to the intercommunication between Chinese and South Korean literature. Facing such valuable work, we should spend time on the study of the characters in order to grasp the main ideas that the writer wants to convey. Regretfully, there is only on article focusing on the study of this work. This paper tries to make a contrastive study of the mother of Chunxiang in “Chunxiang” by Jin Renshun and the classic “the story of Chunxiang”, aiming at digging into the modern ideological connotation through character analysis.