The aim of the paper is to analyze the emotions of Choe, In-hoon's Drama 〈Doong-doong Nak-rang-dong〉. I divide emotions into three categories, primary emotion(or affect), social emotion, and quasi-emotion based on newly cognitivism- emotion-theory...
The aim of the paper is to analyze the emotions of Choe, In-hoon's Drama 〈Doong-doong Nak-rang-dong〉. I divide emotions into three categories, primary emotion(or affect), social emotion, and quasi-emotion based on newly cognitivism- emotion-theory research. In this paper, I try to show how the super-stimuli, plot, characterization, and role-playing of 〈Doong-doong Nak-rang-dong〉 elicit these emotions.
In the play 〈Doong-doong Nak-rang-dong〉, instrumental(trumpet, drum) sounds from off-stage, progenitor's mask and swords on on-stage, and the grotesque mise-en-scene are super-stimuli to elicit affect such as thrill and creepiness. The plot of the play unfolds in a very rapid change from happiness to unhappiness, and protagonists(Hodong and Queen) feel various emotions over an anxious pride and a noble frustration. There are two types of characterization: emotional(humane) characters and unemotional characters. The emotional characters express their feeling contrasting keen laughs with sympathetic crying. The unemotional characters elicit the sensation of fear for political authority. A role-playing in the play becomes an emotion-playing. Hodong and Queen feel quasi-emotion through the role-playing, suffer from conflicts between the quasi-emotion and their real-emotion. Finally they are overwhelmed by quasi-emotion.