「바람의 넋」에 나타난 반복법 연구

Abstract

This study presents an investigation into repetitions in Spirit of Wind by Oh Jeong-hee and analysis results about the repetitions of events, images, and materials. As for the repetitions of memories, the writer gave total 8repetitions of the novel’s main event, which is the main character’s running away from home, which plays an immensely important role in stimulating the readers’interest in the story. The event was first regarded as one without any justifiable reason in the beginning of the story. As the narrative continued on with the repetitions of the event,however, clues emerged for the flow of the story. As for the repetitions of images, the writer repeated the description of the main character’s first memory engraved in mind over 7 times in total. Here, the repeating image became the most important motif in the story. As the motif was described in a repetitive manner, it gradually disclosed the reason for running away from home and the substance of the horrific accident. Finally as for the repetitions of materials, the writer repetitively depicted such materials as wind and cigarette 47 and 43 times,respectively. The two materials play a proper role in representing and explaining the main character’s psychology. Wind is the core symbol in the story. Using the diverse symbolisms of wind, the writer naturally implemented the core material into the narrative. Also depicted repeatedly, the cigarette represents the main character’s anxiety and abnormality. The novel describes events, motifs, and materials, which are the foundation of a novel, in a repetitive fashion, which means repetition is a depiction method to implement the novel and characterize it. In Spirit of Wind, repetitions are more than a mere depiction method and have organic connections with the novel’s form and content, thus being called a depiction method with a broad and vast network.