Many of Kim Dong - in's novels portray women as sensual and negative rather than living women carrying on healthy lives. His heroines are not women with human agony, pursuing a spiritual world, but those acting on their instinct and physical desires. ...
Many of Kim Dong - in's novels portray women as sensual and negative rather than living women carrying on healthy lives. His heroines are not women with human agony, pursuing a spiritual world, but those acting on their instinct and physical desires. Most the women in his novels are portrayed as such, regardless of their education or background. The reasons why Kim Dong-in has described women negatively in his novels are: (1)He habored vestiges of male chauvinism prevalent in the feudal age. (2)A personal distrust and disgust of women (3)Traditional views that women were inferior to men which prevailed in that age greatly influenced him. Kim Dong - in was not alone in portraying women in this manner. Most of his contempories are also guilty of this. From this, we can see the narrow - minded view that even so - called intellectual men held about women. Therefore the negative image of women was formed in part due to the conservative, damaging influence of male writers, including Kim Dong - in, during this period.