Under the confucian-feudal system, women`s life was so miserable. But despite that total suppressed social condition, they took up the active and positive attitude that today`s people can not imagine. They tried to live up to their desire by their liv...
Under the confucian-feudal system, women`s life was so miserable. But despite that total suppressed social condition, they took up the active and positive attitude that today`s people can not imagine. They tried to live up to their desire by their lives or sublimate their lust in literature. Hong Kye-Woel in 『The story of Hong Kye-Woel』 or Mrs. Park in 『The story of Mrs. Park』 were brave and intelligent women and Keom-nyeo (female swordmen) completed the revenge by punishing corrupt officials with their martial skills and chivalrous spirit and established a leading role and subjective stance in the area of marriage and household against the traditional values. Women of those days could feel rule breaking experience through those women indirectly. In other aspect of ancient literature, women changed their features into different images not like before until they faced the individual and social limits and revealed the immanent figure and desire at a time. Beautiful and gentle woman turned into dreadful image by the betray to death. After this mutation, she revealed herself to her lover and tried to stick out. These kind of literature have dealt with surreal and unrealistic world, but they showed the desire and lust which were confined in women`s inner heart as well as their real faces of themselves. Buddist nun in 『Hong Je-Chu and Buddist nun』 in Korean, Daughter of Mr. Duo in 『Du Shi』 in chinese and YI So Ra in 『Kibitsu no Kama (吉備津の釜),Kibitsu Pot』 in japanese all showed themselves as snake, ghost their desire and lust after death under grudge straightforwardly. These phenomena are found commonly in ancient Korean, Japanese and Chinese literatures.