<호랑이가 준 보자기> 설화 속의 ‘소통․공감․보살핌윤리’ (The aspect of “Communication with each other, Feeling empathy, The Ethic of care” observed in the Korean Tiger story, )

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· 발행기관 : 국문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 국문학연구 / 27호 / 233 ~ 263페이지
· 저자명 : 이인경

초록

본 연구는 <호랑이가 준 보자기> 설화를 해석하는 과정을 통해서, 문학교육이 인간의 도덕적 상상력을 어떻게 함양할 수 있을까를 고민해본 것이다. 그 결과 이 설화 속에는 공동체에서 요구되는 “소통․공감․보살핌윤리”가 녹아있음을 확인했다. 이를 구체적으로 살펴보면, 주인공의 잘못을 징계하는 지배 권력을 행사하는 산신령은 남성 산신으로서의 면모를 주인공의 처지를 공감하며 보살피는 호랑이는 여성 산신으로서의 면모를 보여주고 있는 바, 산신령은 정의의 윤리를 호랑이는 보살핌의 윤리를 각각 실천한 것으로 보았다. 또한 이 설화에 등장하는 총각은 먼저 호랑이에 대한 공감을 보인 덕분에 산신령의 징벌을 면할 수 있었고, 호랑이는 총각과의 수평적 이해와 소통을 통해서 보살핌윤리를 실천하고 있다. 이런 서사전개는 일정한 현재적 의미를 지니는바, 행정의 주체와 시민 모두가 공동의 이익과 행복을 위해서 함께 노력하며 살아가는 ‘우리들’이라는 사회적 인식이 공동체에 뿌리내릴 때에 그 구성원 전체가 행복해지는 선순환 구조를 마련할 수 있음을 본다. 이렇게 볼 때, <호랑이가 준 보자기> 설화는 독자의 도덕적 상상력을 자극함으로써 공동체적 가치를 효과적으로 전달하는 교육매체로서 가치를 지닌다고 하겠다.

영어초록

I pondered on how and in what ways to develop our characters and moral imagination by reading the Korean Tiger story, <the magic cloth-wrapper a tiger offered>. The story is about the very poor-man destined to be punished by reason of having a pee and pooh everywhere in the mountain in winter. But the tiger, who was dispatched by the Mountain-God to punish the offender, only to care for him and eventually helped him out to get married and be rich. It was because the tiger was deeply moved to hear that the poor-man talked to himself worrying about the tiger's feeling cold. Ever since then, the tiger had repeatedly observed that he expressed his sympathy of the tiger. At last, the tiger impressed by his empathy with the tiger, made up its mind to help him rich. So, the poor-man could cure the sick daughter of a rich man owing to the magic cloth-wrapper which the tiger had provide for him, and consequently he got married to her to be rich and lived happily ever after.
In this story, I observed the aspect of communication and feeling empathy presented between the tiger and the poor-man. In fact, the poor-man could be exempted from punishment by the Mountain-God because he had voluntarily expressed his sympathy with the tiger. And the tiger practiced its "Ethic of care" for him by the mutual understanding and communication between them.
This storyline has very important meaning which can be applied to our modern social life. Especially, I would emboss the tiger's carrying out "Ethic of care" showed to the poor-man. I supposed communication, feeling empathy and "Ethic of care" are very necessary for the happiness of our community today. That is, the story shows us we all in our community can be happy only when the social concept should become widely accepted in the community, that the administrative subject and the citizen are "we" who cooperate in harmony for our common interests and happiness.
In conclusion, this paper could prove this story is a work of great educational value, that can let the students know about the ethics of community by effectively arousing their moral imagination.

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