조대현 단편동화에 나타난 인물 연구

Abstract

This paper studies the characters in Cho Dae-hyeon’s short fairy tale. The range of characters in fairy tales is wide ranging from animals, things, kids, and adults. It is normal in fairy tales that a ‘child’ who delivers the aspects of children’s lives appears as the main character. However, Cho Dae-hyeon’s fairy tale shows a unique aspect that aside from the ‘child’, an ‘old person’ emerges as the key figure and leads the transition of events. This study investigates on how the ‘old person’ character’s role changes in different aspects by looking at Cho Dae-hyeon’s short fairy tale. Thus, the ‘old man’s character at the beginning of early works(since the 1960’s), went back and forth between reality and dream and managed the role of a guardian of man’s purity. Using real-life characters, the 1970’s work ‘Old man’ character criticizes the problem of alienation due to the collapse of familism. It was shaped in the works since the 1980’s and showed changes in the aspect of ‘old man’ character as a ‘witness’. The author has suggested humanism that embraces the weak. From 2000 up to the present, the author has studied the original form of human nature. Using the extension of purity, ‘old man’ character, the author has shown purity and community-based humanism that affirms life. The ‘Old man’ character’s change of role implies the transition of values in both man and literature. By using the ‘Old man’ character who has power and ends up as a socially-weak person, the author created a literary fairy tale that shows the present problems and the manifestation of human concentric circles.