중국 고대 애정소설에서 하녀의 서사적 역할에 대한 연구 - 《歡喜寃家》를 중심으로

Abstract

The purposes of this study is considering about the narrative role of the maid in the ancient China love story. Through this, I analyzed how the narrative position of maid that is in charge of essential role between the male and female leading actors progressing of love story and theme of love being recognized and expressed. I emphasize that the narrative role of maid no less important than that of the male and female leading actors called ‘caizi(才子)’ and ‘jiaren(佳人)’. In other words, in the meantime motive and story of love that is focused on the male and female leading actors actually is almost impossible for the developing of narration without maid. The narrative role of heroine that is represented by the higher status lady is very limited and passive, on the contrary the maid rather can perform the active and free role because of her humble status - don't need manners. These characteristics of the maid can make her play a mediator role in narrative progress of connecting and arranging between hero and heroine in the ancient China love story works. As a result, the maid sometimes is serves as a connecter on narrative progress or sometimes is serves as a subject of narrative progress, or as a sex object in the narrative works.