사설시조 속의 가족과 그 주변인들 -고부(姑婦),처첩(妻妾) 관계를 중심으로-

Abstract

Saseolsijo is a controversial genre in our literary history, and it is continuously studied for scholastic pursuit. When the Saseolsijo is treated in the view of feminism, it could provide an important clue for solving a lot of unexplained problems in the studies up until now. This study also treats Saseolsijo in the view of feminism, and focused especially on the literary works that matter with family relation. The pattern of family being treated in Saseolsijo raises an aspect between specific characters. Those trends might be also arisen from the patterned features. This study focused the literary works which treats the problem, especially on the relation between mother-in-law & daughter-in-laws, and wife & concubine. Generally, daughter-in-law is considered as an ‘outsider’ for the time being completely adapted in the family because she is a newly included member of family. At the same time, the daughter-in-law also carries the heart character of family when she is considered on the relation between wife and concubine. The relation between mother-in-law & daughter-in-law was a problem caused by the system of marriage at most, and the conflict between wife and concubine caused by the social tradition that permitted ‘the system of wife-concubine’ at that time. The feature of conflict was shown predominantly among those relations, and the situation of daughter-in-law and concubine was depicted positively because they are underdog in the society. The conflict between mother-in-law & daughter-in-laws, and wife & concubine was raised on the problem of female only, and the male who are the cause of the problem was not obvious on the Saseolsijo. The obscurity of male characters in the works might be an important feature of Saseolsijo.