This thesis is a trial for making a comparative study of two representative styles in the 1910`s, when diverse descriptive styles were mixed. The first aim of this study is to abstract a common description from Mujeong, called as the first modem novel...
This thesis is a trial for making a comparative study of two representative styles in the 1910`s, when diverse descriptive styles were mixed. The first aim of this study is to abstract a common description from Mujeong, called as the first modem novel and the stories of ancient times with printed edition and to define the common and different points. To do this, firstly, the descriptive style was arranged around a central pivot of kinyeodam, the common description of two styles. To perform this work, I abstracted the descriptive style by dividing works, which were containing the description of Kinyeo out of stories of ancient times with printed edition in the 1910`s, into descriptive paragraphs and then attempted the work of abstracting the description in the center of Young Chae Park in Mujeong. The following styles are abstracted by arranging the description of the stories of ancient times with printed edition in the center of Kinyeodam as follows: a. A heroine was born with the middle classes at least. (birth and status). b. She became a kisaeng for saving her parents or due to the fall of family (downfall of status). c. She tied the nuptial knot to a man (getting acquainted with a man). d. She parted from the man (parting) e. She tried to die by drowning herself in the water in the risk of rape by an obstructor (oppression) f. She was rescued out of danger by a helper (rescuer). g. She d e d to a hero by his succession (reunion). Comparing to the above, the feature of Young Chae Park, in the description of Mujeong, the modem novel is arranged as follows: two different points are discovered. Firstly, Hyung Sik Lee, the hero, who must take charge of the role of helper, did not attempt the rescue with positive attitude and secondly, Young Chae Park was to confronted at a situation that she had to rescue herself as the result that the helper faded his role of rescue. This study f i d s that Hyung Sik Lee, the hero was a modernistic ego in an indefinite manners and the failure of helping Young Chae Park was a necessary consequence of modem value system. It also makes it clear and shows that the aforesaid two different points are the origin dividing the times into modern and pre-modern as well as the characteristic of two different styles. This is the very important characteristic of Mujeong the starting point of modern style.