한문소설 속 성의 윤리와 정의 개념의 모순

Abstract

This essay tries to analyse two Korean classic novels in the premise that there is ethical contradiction in the origin of the discourses about justice. The coincidence between the judical justice made from society and the ethical judgement originated from subject, of course, would be one of the ultimate goals of humankind. But it is not possible yet, and because of the impossibility various ethical, literal discourses on the topic could have been produced till now. The representative literal appearance generated from this gap of the contradiction is the narrative of love & desire. The narrative of love & desire had begun from the attempt to humanized the savage desire attributed to nature and to establish it as new ethics. Kimhyunkamho(「金現感虎」) was the representative work of that humanizing process. This ethical process was designed to violate the principle of justice symbolized as 'effort for another's benefit(‘利物’) and 'tiger girl's sacrifice' is the symbolic accident in the Korean traditional narratives. This sacrifice narrative formed from the viewpoint that regarded women as the residue of savageness in later days, at the stage of Pouikyojip(「布衣交集」), could develop into the love narrative contains the issue of female identity. If the love could symbolize the beginning of human ethics, trying to modify it in the view of justice means the reconstructing the concept of humanity. Therefore the legislation of justice as the realization of humanity is not the case could be performed at the angle of judical modification on 'the effort for another's benefit(‘利物’). It have to be rejustified through the fundamental retrospection of our ethical attitude toward sexuality and love.