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Abstract

This study aims to disclose the meaning of the aspect, roles, and their behaviors from Mrs. Yeo’s maid as a female character in ‘Seonghyeongongsukryeolgi’. Mrs. Yeo wanted her own son, Lim Yu-lin, to be a patriarch. So she tries to kill her adopted son, Lim Hee-rin. And she tries to kill Lim Hee-rin’s wife, Joo Sook-ryol, and her son, Chang-hung. In this process of slander, it is the Nanso that acts as the main agent of Mrs. Yeo’s actions. Nanso is the most active maid of Mrs. Yeo. There are three main characteristics of Nanso. First, Nanso is a maid who schemes a stratagem by herself. Secondly, she mobilized her family when she was scheming a stratagem. Third, Nanso does not give up even if she keeps failing. Unlike active Nanso, Mrs. Yeo is passive. Mrs. Yeo is constantly making schemes but always afraid of Lim's family. Becuase the insight of Lim Hanju seems a fear for Mrs. Yeo. The insight of Lim Hanju has been described since Mrs. Yeo got married with him. Lim Hee-rin also knew all the tricks of Mrs. Yeo. But for filial piety he pretends not to know Mrs. Yeo’s crimes. Nanso’s activism supplements Mrs. Yeo’s passivity. And it completes the scheme. Thus Nanso fails twice, but she doesn't give up. Nanso’s scheme becomes more brutal and its scope gets wider. Nanso’s desire is revealed twice when she’s scheming. One is pervergence for Lim Hanju, and the next is the determination to let Lim Yu-lin establishes himself as ruler of a family. What's important is that both of these desires coincide with the time when Mrs. Yeo goes through hardships. On the other hand, when Mrs. Yeo succeeds in the scheme, or only Nanso suffers, Nanso’s desires are not revealed. Nanso is the person whose desires have spread to Mrs. Yeo. Nanso expresses her anger towards Lim’s family on behalf of Mrs. Yeo. The so-called Nanso’s Desire and Nanso’s Activeness, expressed by her, also affect her consequence. Mrs. Yeo is a stepmother of Lim Hee-rin. Mrs. It is essential for Yeo’s survival to keep Lim Hee-rin’s filial piety. Thus, the narrator makes Mrs. Yeo only devise a scheme which can not jeopardize her life. In this process, Nanso is tooled for narrative. Nanso has been beaten twice by Lim Hanju on behalf of Mrs. Yeo, and is crucially put to death on behalf of Mrs. Yeo, with all this evil. ‘Seonghyongsukryolgi’ is a work that actively reveals the performances of the maids. This is not only the maid of the reactionary character, but also the maid of the main character. Maids belong to a double life that has the status of a lower-class woman but can not rip off the life of a upper-class woman. The life of the maid in this novel is an indicator of the solidarity of women in the upper and lower classes of the time, and the life of women in the lower classes can be seen as a fragmentary indicator.