「원님보다 지혜로운 조력자」 이야기를 통해 본 판결담의 사회문화적 의미 연구

Abstract

This essay will focus on specific type of Ruling tales, assistant-existing ruling tales and investigate its cultural and social signification. Ruling tales can be defined as a tales which demonstrate public adjudging process by adjudging subjects: with the process from cognition, decision, and announcement. Announcement is the marked process of Ruling tales, public subjects tend to control the whole process. However, there are specific types of Ruling tales which contain assistants especially in decision level. Ruling tales with the people-assistant, mostly consisted of women or children, seek to change significance of general ruling tales. Suppose general ruling tales represent their ideal model of system, assistant ruling tales can modify and expand that model which has been easily accepted as the standard. Public subjects are important to announce the result and to continue public process. On the other hand, the assistant can find the different perception of system when public subjects cannot consider because they concentrate only on the ideal standard system. Therefore, the tales prove that people are involved in making proper ruling process, in addition this public process owe the people creating and running this appropriate process.