부모-자식 관계 서사민요의 구조적 특성과 향유층의 의식

Abstract

This paper concerns about the structural characteristics and consciousness of folk ballads about relation between parents and children. Folk ballads about relation between parents and children consist of three types. (1) The children who got murdered by their father (2) The children who resent their father's remarriage (3) The son who participates in a war after saying goodbye to his family. The structure of each type can be classified with three sub-types: the first is the type of desire completion, the second is the type of demand frustration, and the last is the mixed type. In the type (1), the children rest after work, but step-mother plot to injure them, at last they are murdered by their father. So the structure is formed with the type of demand frustration. In the type (2), the children persuade their father from marrying again, but their father remarry and their step-mother mistreats them. So the structure is also formed with the type of demand frustration. In the type (3), the son participates in the war, but his parents and family treats him as usual, so he sends a fake letter of his death and his family grieve. But only his wife leaves home to search him, at last she finds him and makes him revive. So the structure is also formed with the type of desire completion. The meaning and consciousness of women abstracted from the structural characteristics of these folk ballads are as follows; type singers the type about children before marriage the type about children after marriage women before marriage Identification with the children Dependence on parents and anxiety about the absence of parents Hostility about step-mother and desire for father's love Identification with the wife as women who will marry Dependence on husband and anxiety about the absence of husband as a protector in the future women after marriage Sympathy with children and criticism about father in the view of mother and wife Precaution against husband's remarriage and dissipation Criticism about relation between parents and children in the view of wife Desire for the independence from parents in law In conclusion, folk ballads about relation between parents and children are songs that desire for the independence from their parents in law and standing by themselves. And these are song that hope for the love of their parents and husbands. These songs are composed of a dramatic narrative story and contains the frankness in women's consciousness. They could, therefore, be got very important valuation in literal estimation. We ought to study all types of folk ballads delicately and investigate the nationwide aspects of transmission throughly.