한국 근대 희곡에 나타난 조혼, 그 혼종의 비근대성 = Joheon in Modern Korean Drama

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Joheon, the practice of entering an arranged marriage at a very young age, was a significant theme in Korean modern drama. Joheon dramas are structured around three key actants: the intellectual husband, the traditional wife, and the new woman lover. The intellectual husband enters an arranged marriage to the traditional wife figure at a young age. After receiving a modern education and reaching adulthood, he either divorces his wife or is unable to do so due to parental opposition. If he succeeds in divorcing her, he marries his true love, the new woman lover, but his marital life remains troubled. Meanwhile, the traditional wife, having been forcibly divorced, often descends into madness or takes her own life. In these plays, Joheon is depicted as a feudal custom that must be abolished in modern society. However, that “modern” society is in fact a patriarchal, male­centered world and a hybrid realm that remains fundamentally non-modern.