식물유래담에 드러난 변신과 욕망의 표현

Abstract

A plant-derived story is a kind of narrative that started with a curiosity about the appearance and ecology of flowers, trees, and grass. As a transformational story, plant-derived stories tend to be understood as some kind of failure story. However, if we listen to and read the stories again, paying attention to the desires of the transformers who have not been properly ignited, the story of plant-derived stories is not simply a story of people whose desires are frustrated and die. Rather, it is a story of women told through the mouth of women, and rather, it contains a scene where beings who had no place to live are rooted to the ground with the body of a plant through the fulfillment and will of desire. First of all, the types “The Origin of Halmi Flower” and “The Origin of Daughter-in-law’s Rice Grass Flower” are stories of being reborn as plants after conflict in the process of “being a family” as a mother and daughter, as a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law. These stories begin with a description of the appearance of a flower at the introduction of the oral story, and are related to the problem of “external imagery” in that the naming of the flower contains expressions that are intuitively related to the appearance. Next, “The History of Trumpet Creeper” and “The Legend of Baek Il-hong” are stories of women who are no longer able to wait due to their lover's indifference and some kind of error, die and become flowers. A series of narratives, along with “Sisters Becoming Wister,” show that even the ecological aspect of plants has been melted into the story and narrated. The origin of this trend is the fruit of love between women and men, and the pattern of frustrating the ecological combination of reproduction has been understood in relation to the ecology of plants. However, plant-derived stories can be treated as narratives that imagine alternative lives rooted in this world as an expression of women’s nailed-down desires, while the male narrator’s narrative depicts the ending of female characters in the narrative somewhat hopelessly.