This submission has been prepared after study of Lee, Kwang-Su's novels, is Which I tried to investigate some interior self-conflicts of the maleprotagonists, and to classify into several human types.
In the 1910's, the male protagonists in the nove...
This submission has been prepared after study of Lee, Kwang-Su's novels, is Which I tried to investigate some interior self-conflicts of the maleprotagonists, and to classify into several human types.
In the 1910's, the male protagonists in the novel were filled with some self-conflicts in their conscience caused from two factors, the need of self-achievemtns and devotion for their father-land. The representative Characteristics in his novel is Lee, Hyoung-Sik, in<Moo-Jeong> (the Heartlessness) which is later classified to the patriot-type and the artist-type.
In the 1920's, the heroes in the Lee, Kwang-Su's novel also possessed this sort of conscious self-coflicts caused from affection (情) and frate-rnities (義), which can be classified into four types, 가, 나, 다 and mixture of two other factors.
가) type used to over indulge in their own selfish-love and he was in different to the dark situaion of his father land occupied by the Japa-nese colonial invision, however, this male-protagonist came to regret his faults after some bitter experience by his lover's betrayal. The author, Lee, Kwang-Su, attempted to demonste the typical mail intelil-gences who used to fall into the mammonism and sexual epicurism prevailed afthe the 3.1 Indipendence Movement.
나) style was a married, middle-aged man who was at a leading level of the Korean society and was fall in love with a young lady. He tried to give up his passin to her, but after all he chose suicide to give up his ideal lover forever.
다) type is a revolutionist or patriot who sacrificed himself for the fatherland through which the author described his theory of preparative to the independence.
The mixture type is a autobiographic hero, who combined two types Especially the author appealed his best ideal type through the hero An, Bin in <Sarang> <love>.
Finally, we can find the heroes in Lee, Kwang-Su's novels have been working to moral-utopia, wandering ceselessly between affection (情) and fraternities(義).