가사문학 속 남성 및 여성 생애 인식의 차이와 즉자적·대자적 의식

Abstract

This study looked at how men's and women's lives are recognized and described in Gasa literature. In <Namjaga>, a man is expressed as a subject of consumption and entertainment while rising socially based on Confucian theory. This reflected the social and economic changes in the late Joseon Dynasty, but on the contrary, it was possible because men were the owners of society and the state. On the other hand, in <Yeojaga>, women cannot describe the changes in their lives according to any socio-economic changes, because women were a minority excluded from society and the state. Since this work was written by a male author, while comparing male and female lives, it did not describe how unfair and unequal the female lives were treated, but merely emphasized that women should obey men. In <Yeoja Jatanga> and <Yeoja Hantanga>, the female narrator finally realizes the inequality between male and female lives, and tries to point out that this is unfair. However, it seems that women are giving up their sexual identity as women in that they want to be like men, but in reality, this was to point out the wrongness of society and the world where only men are treated. It can be said that this double denial shows the self-consciousness of dealing with women's lives in Gasa literature.