윤조병의 개구리 3부작의 주제의식 연구 - 아동희곡집 『개구리 이야기』를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper studies on thematic consciousness of Yoon Jo-byung’s collected plays for children The Frog Stories. The Smallest Frog Prince in the World is adapted from original tale The Frog King, accepts the style of Christian Morality plays. As a veteran playwright, Yoon recreated the tough original into elaborate and refined plays. But thematic consciousness of this play is not beyond it of original tale, which emphasizes some moral consciousness such as fulfillment of promise, self-restraint. Happy Street the Frog shows only his new and creative thematic thought. This play’s dramatic situation that frog family is threatened to kill by predators, is an allegory that alludes a divided situation of Korean peninsular suffered aggression by foreign power. As his basic thought, national ideology and Korea people’s community works this play. In Yung-hee and Frog Puppet, love between humanized Puppet Chacha and Yung-hee is not accomplished. Chacha gives up human being on account of his weird look different from human beings, human’s derision and scorn, and his maladjustment in human world, etc. Its ending resolution is based on his attitude as a playwright, which lays stress on reality than empty dream. What is the reason that he created Frog plays as a series? He regards frog as paradoxical existence. A frog is very small, weak, and weird animal. Yoon discovers its double opposite sideness. He depicts a frog’s physical appearance ostensibly, but emphasized on its inner value and spirit. To say nothing of moral consciousness of The Smallest Frog Prince in the World, Resistance and overcome through cooperation in Happy Street the Frog and self-awareness and understanding human world in Yung-hee and Frog Puppet.