'심청전'의 공동체 의식과 말하기 방식

Abstract

Various forms of communicative expressions are used in Simchungjeon, including informing in vertical relationship, self-humiliation, exposing the sense of indebtedness from self-pity, and compensation mentality. First, one of the communicative forms of Simchungjeon is informing in vertical relationship. Simchung is a character who crosses over the vertical relationship of celestiality, middle-earth(Mongeunsa), and the world of mortals. It is why her communication in form of informing is naturally embedded throughout the story. The communication in form of informing is not a verbal phenomenon that results from repeated accidents, which are often observed in classical novels. But it shows that there exist various gods in it that govern their own domains, and they communicate favorably with Simchung 'informing' them. Meantime, the process in which human and god, and real world and ideal world confer with each other flows in the story smoothly. The vertical relationship surrounding Simchung shows the method of communication taken by the contemporary people that embrace principle and order(fortunes or retributive justice) rather than symbolizes the life of inescapable fate. Second, self-humiliation and exposing the sense of indebtedness from self-pity are also the forms of communicative expressions often used in Simchungjeon. While they live, Simchung and her father keep communicating their hardship and the sense of indebtedness from it they go through. Her father's sense of indebtedness originates in his exhaustion of real life. It is highly likely that his sense of indebtedness