《당신들의 천국》에 나타난 윤리성 연구 = A Study on Ethicality in 《Your Heaven》 -focusing on the subjectification process of"Lee Sang-Wook"-

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

《Your Heaven》 is a novel containing abundant materials that induce multilayered interpretation. In the meantime, a number of studies on this novel has been conducted. According to the research results, there is a dominant tendency of understanding this novel as a product of reconciling confrontational composition of a leper and healthy person through conversations based on mutual subjectivity. However, this applies to the reading of not admitting the critical mind in 《Your Heaven》. It is because characters were the subjects without completion enough to approve each other as intersubjective others. Meaning, the beginning of this novel is a critical situation of intersubjective communication. However, this critical situation that appears like a dead-end street urges characters, paradoxically, to build a relationship, confront each other desperately, and to keep each other in check. A character who shows this most effectively is ‘Lee, Sang Wook.’ Lee, Sang Wook, a child not infected with tuberculosis, spends his childhood in an antagonistic order of leper and healthy person. This provided a basis to observe the paradise construction business that Jo, Baek Heon started from critical point of view continuously. However, Lee, Sang Wook is also appearing as a character who internalized dichotomous confrontation of leper and healthy person. When he makes a relationship with Yoon, Hae Won and Suh, Mi Yeon, he describes Yoon, Hae Won contemptuously and showsrepugnance towards Suh, Mi Yeon who makes a confession that she was born as a child not infected with tuberculosis. It is because their existence is foretelling a failure of ethical proposition that Lee, Sang Wook set up himself. He is making a proposition of‘to love a leper as a healthy person’ as his own fateful task, but Suh, Mi Yeon and Yoon, Hae Won are implying a fact that such proposition is bound to fail. This implies a fact that Lee, Sang Woo is denying the conflicting composition of leper and healthy person ostensibly but accepting the conflicting composition inside and is believing the effect. This circumstance can be known through an anecdote of his father, Lee, Soon Gu. After all Lee, Sang Wook was able to unravel his ethical challenges when he crossed over the symbolic order internally that he refused but believed in implicitly. Lee, Sang Wook tries to resolve through an extreme choice of called ‘escape.’ This escape was a great incident that shook the symbolic order of Sorokdo Island, and even caused drastic changes in main characters who established their identity by referring to the conflicting composition of a leper and healthy person. They were placed in a situation of having to search for ethical foundation that can replace such fantastic structure from ground zero. How Jo, Baek Heon returned to the island as a civilian and how Hwang, Hee Baek defined director Jo, Baek Heon as a practitioner of love derived from here. This becomes a chance to evaluate 《Your Heaven》as fictionalizing the process of ‘ethics’ getting formed in critical situation of intersubjective dialogical relationship.

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