『무정』에 나타난 기독교의 표층구조와 심층구조

Abstract

The narrator in Moo Jung describes Christianity that the elder Kim believes in as the way to keep his wealth and prestige, or show his ostentation of enlightenment and the way to make his position secure; not in the true sense of the word of Christianity. Moreover, the narrator bluntly makes sarcastic remarks about the elder Kim and his daughter, Sun-hyung, and that they are just pretending to be Christians. However, Lee Hyung-sik tacitly makes a display of himself, claiming that he is the only person who became a true Christian. The Christian epiphany of Lee Hyung-sik is composed of an urge of libido. This epiphany reaches that of the Creator. Moo Jung progresses by two different structures framed in the work: brightness and darkness. These can be comparable to those of Heaven and Hades. The elder Kim’s family line can be compared to the image of Heaven, brightness the jinsa Park’s family line can be compared to the image of Hades, darkness. Unexpectedly, Lee Hyung-sik ultimately chose the elder Kim’s family line. Even Lee Hyung-sik consistently belittles the elder Kim for his pretended faith of Christian, he becomes a member of his wife’s family, that is, the elder Kim’s family. This means he, structurally, becomes a member of a Christian family. This book is analyzed as a work which applies the Christianity motif as a deep structure in that it borrows the internal achievement of the scapegoat motif through the jinsa Kim and Park Young-chae and Young-chae’s salvation and resurrection through Kim Byung-wook as a narrative structure. This work demonstrates Christianity’s significance by borrowing the scapegoat motif. From now on, the quest of Christian literature should focus on deeply analyzing how Jesus Christ’s scapegoat motif can exist in original form in the work and how it impresses readers; they should not just superficially analyze Christian phraseology.