「라쇼몬」에 나타난 ‘문(門)’의 시대적 변용 과정 -아쿠타가와의「라쇼몬」과 구로사와의 <라쇼몬>을 비교 중심으로-

Abstract

<Ra-sho-mon> has been descended down as various epitomes ranging from the very past to the present. Door, not only standing for opening and closing (or being passage) as the primary meaning, includes the extended meaning since it creates the boundary between inside and outside. Also, while it has played a role of preventing attacks from the outside for internal security and peace due to its exclusive characteristic, it occasionally has played contrary part, blocking and confinement to the socially disqualified people as described in Akutagawa's <Ra-sho-mon>. For example, the peripheral people who are isolated from the ordinary people in everyday world, such as thieves, madmen, old people and corps, are quarantined to outside under the name of maintaining the inside order. On the other hand, with door’s open characteristic, when exterior peripheral people and their extraordinary characteristics coming in make break-up into inside and outside on the boundary, sin and death that ordinary people commit in Gurosawa's <Ra-sho-mon> represent the transition of co-existence within the ordinary people and the peripheral people and transition of routinizing into unhabituation (or unhabituation into routinizing). Simple to say, this disordered world ends referring to the world door is closed with returning to humanism (humanity) by the baby appeared on the last scene, more specifically to say, with returning to ordinary world from disaggregate noprimarily world. Therefore, <Ra-sho-mon> is fittingly transformed into each situation as it can be somewhere ghost exists or an isolated place for inside order and security or disbanded into daily place reaching nowadays. It tells that door’s function has been transformed into more flexible way as it embraces not only the original meaning of closing and opening, but abstract meaning with the stream of time.