趙緯韓의 여성에 대한 인식 (Cho Wihan’s Perception About Women)

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· 발행기관 : 어문연구학회
· 수록지 정보 : 어문연구 / 71권 / 149 ~ 177페이지
· 저자명 : 민영대

초록

<崔陟傳>의 작가 조위한은 일생을 건전하게 살았던 인물이다. 임진왜란 때문에 단란했던 가정이 풍비박산되는데, 피난 다니던 중 어린 딸과 어머니를, 몇 년 후 정유재란 때는 아내를 잃는 커다란 슬픔을 겪는다. 이런 일들이 자연스럽게 여성에 대한 긍정적인 사고를 갖게 했는지 모른다. 평소 그가 친구의 아내나 어머니의 죽음을 당해 썼던 輓詞와 애도의 詩, 딸과 아들의 요사를 슬퍼하면서 지었던 詩와 祭文을 통해서 평소 그가 여성에 대해 어떤 생각을 가지고 있었던가가 잘 드러난다. 특히 수십 년 전 어린 시절에 보았던 기생을 잊지 못하다가 뒷날 다시 만났을 때 인생의 회한을 노래했던 시에서 그의 여성관의 일면을 볼 수 있다.
작품의 명칭에서 보듯이 주인공은 분명 최척이다. 그러나 그보다는 오히려 여주인공인 옥영의 활약이 부각되어 있음을 확인할 수 있다. 이외에도 옥영의 어머니 심씨, 정 상사 부인, 홍도와 그녀의 이모와 같은 여성들로 하여금 이야기를 주도적으로 이끌어 가게끔 역할을 부여했음을 본다. 이들 여성들의 언행을 통하여 이야기의 극적전환을 이룰 수 있도록 이야기를 전개하고 있다는 점에서 탁월한 작가의 기술태도를 볼 수 있다.
작가는 옥영을 한 집안의 며느리로서, 홀어머니의 딸로서, 한 남자의 아내로서, 또는 자식들의 어머니로의 역할을 매우 중요시하면서 이야기를 전개하고 있다. 이 점에서는 며느리인 홍도의 인물됨을 기술하면서도 같게 나타난다.
조선시대 다른 작가의 작품 전반을 살펴본 후에야 보다 명확한 작가의 여성에 대한 인식이 드러나겠지만, 지금까지의 정리만으로도 男性中心社會였던 당시 대표적인 사대부의 한 사람이었던 그의여성에 대한 태도가 그 누구에게서도 찾아보기 쉽지 않았던, 상당히 近代化된, 開放的인 것임은 확인한 셈이다. 중요한 것은 이런 여성에 대한 시대를 앞서는 인식이 그의 삶을 통해 자연스럽게 형성되었다는 것이다. 이런 점에서 趙緯韓은 조선시대 그 어떤 작가보다도 시대를 앞서가는, 뛰어난 작가정신을 가졌던 인물로 높이 평가받아야 할 작가임이 분명하다.

영어초록

Jo Wihan(趙緯韓) is a writer who has wrote Choicheokjeon(崔陟傳). He made this work in 1621. In that time is quite early time as a novel history.
Before that time there were classical literatures these are Geumosinwha(金鰲新話) by Kim Siseup, Keejaekeei(企齋記異) by Shin Kwanghan, Jusaengjeon(周生傳) by Kwon Phil, and Hongkildongjeon(洪吉童傳) by Heo Kyun. These novels have many things in common which they have unrealistic and nonsensical story, also they seem likely to be affected by Chinese novel. Specially, in these novels, it is the hard to find writer’s positive-ness thinking about women. It is not uncommon thing when men were middle of the world.
However, Choicheokjeon its main setting is Namwon(南原). This novel is developing as a realistic story with real person Choi Cheok(崔陟) who is the main character. This novel is showing our people’s suffering we should have had when we have had war. Actually, this novel is not be directly affected by Chinese novel. And the writer's idea is totally different about women, in spite of who lives a same male-dominated society above different works.
Writer Jo Wihan is a person who lived life very healthily as live long. But as Japanese invasion on Korea in 1592, his family went down. During the war his daughter who was born in lately would have be died by cold with starvation. After his daughter has gone, as they were going to mother’s home, Namwon, in there his mother has gone. After few years later in 1597 his wife was gone. In recent year he was gone with his family. Maybe these reasons made him to go his homeland with Myoung(明)'s forces after war has finish. But his elder brother made him not doing it.
Maybe as he lost his wife and daughter in the war it made him to have positive thinking to women. But this work is finished after many years later with sadness. However, from this work we could see his life connected with the war and his sadness which he would have gone his lovely family to every where due to the war.
Usually in his poet that sorry to his friends who has lost early his wife and daughter, in that poet’s writing style and words show what was his usual thinking to women.
From in his poet that about to woman whom he has seen when he was young also can see his perception about women.
As the title Choicheokjeon shows the main character is Choi Cheok. But in that novel woman character, Lee Okyoung, is better to be showed than Choi Cheok. Also the story is gone by women who are the Okyoung mother Ms Sim, Hongdo, and Ms Sim’s sister. Through these women’s speaking style, writer’s writing style is showed.
Writer makes Okyoung to do very important work as a wife, mother’s daughter, children’s mother. Also she is showed at this work as a main character that is developing this story positively. Also from Hongdo’s character could see what writer idea is. Like this positive thinking about to women is the radical idea as a educated man. This work is clearly sure that writer Jo Wihan’s idea about to women is shown in this work.
It is his limits about idea to women because he wrote woman character negatively whose name is Okyoung. She was the slave to Chunsaeng and die until she finishes her work.

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