유치진의 「 소 」 연구 = The Study on the Ryu Chi-Jin`s ' the Ox '

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is intended to see the signification process of the ox in the Ju chi-jin`s `the Ox`, regarding `the Ox` as a text. Previously, though the studies of `the Ox` have various approaches, they share with method which develop the event by character. But really if we closely consider a signification process of `the Ox`, we may find the fact that the signification process of the work by `the Ox` reveals strongly, compared with characters. Therefore, this study is beyond the viewpoints that regard the ox as simple setting, indeed explain that `the Ox` play an agent of problem-solution. In the work, an ox becomes reason-for-being of farmhouse and stand for the identity of a farmer. As event of this work process forwards, the farmhouse collapses lossing a their reason-for-being, and the characters wander deprived from their identity. Then, the objectification-process of an ox is concreted in two level. First, there is a conflict between the agricultural-generation and the antiagricultural-generation appear through a conflect between the father and the son. Second, there is a conflict between the manager of a tenant farms and the tenant farmer appear through a conflect between the ruling classes and the ruled classes. It seems that the conflicts realize broken modernization by Japan in the socio-politic context. At last, the objectification of an ox resulted in the absent of an ox. Therefore, the kuk-seo`s famliy become a collapse and the charaters in the work wander from will. It happen to resolve the problem by an ox, as the ox return to the cage. The deed of an ox work on analogically and such an action lead to the result of returning his cage. That is to say, the through the deed of an ox kuk-seo`s famliy acquire a liveliness again, the characters recover their identity. In conclusion, an ox functions not only the symbol to represent identity of agriculture but also the agent of problem-solution to return the identity of agriculture.