Movie became main genre in the field of drama in 90's. The Movie-making based on Play is increase more and more these days. Play has solid position and long history in the field of Drama and literature. Meanwhile, history of Movie is very short, but M...
Movie became main genre in the field of drama in 90's. The Movie-making based on Play is increase more and more these days. Play has solid position and long history in the field of Drama and literature. Meanwhile, history of Movie is very short, but Movie approach to audience easily so have huge influence and popularity. The biggest common of two genres is needs of good text. Because of it, the writer who makes good text not only Play also Movie is special.
This essay is s study about Jang, jin's Play, and <Welcome to Dongmakgol>. Jang, jin is play writer who has career in the both field of Play and Movie. Also, he is a writer who elicits good response both of critics and audience. This Play is in the middle of his works. This Play represents of Jang, Jin's works as elicits good responses Between Critics and Audience.
Fantasy is the most characteristic of Jang, Jin's play. <Welcome to Dongmakgol> shows the typical aspect of Jang, jin's writing in that way. The title of the Play shows us that importance of space in this work. So this study gives eye on space in the play mainly.
First of all, character of 'Writer' is unique. He describes the play to audience like an omniscient writer in novel. 'Writer' uses story-within-a-story method of narration and it causes the fantasy. He guides audience to the space of Play. But he couldn't prove the fact of his story, so distance between audience's reality and Play became clear.
Dongmakgol which is the main space of the play, is an isolated mountain village in 50's Korea. The space which guided by 'Writer' is uncommon space in reality. <Welcome to Dongmakgol> has Korean War as background of the times. The war was battle of ideology and the most famous war in age of cold war. But people of Dongmakgol never know about the war, so there is any conflict in Dongmakgol. Besides, soldiers who lost way from North and South Korea and United states met in Dongmakgol, but they didn't fight with guns in there. The space of the play has character of utopia. The characteristic of community of Dongmakgol is mythic. Desire of individual and community is never opposed to each other.
'I-yun' is symbolistic character of the space. She is mad, extremely natural and has no persona. Her death is an inevitable consequence. I-yun got symbolism like Dongmakgol which has no existence by death. Almost everyone in dongmakgol has flat character in the play. But 'Pyo, hyun-chul', a military officer of South-Korea, experiences an inner conflict cause of inappropriate behavior of Korean army. This objectively shows hostile Attitude of South-Korea to South-Korean audience, and makes them think again about separated situation.