박경리 소설의 인물 성격과 ‘초인론’

Abstract

With relation to Park, Kyung-ri’s Choinron, we can find three peculiar types of characters in her novels. (1) A complete overman who crossed the border between the ordinary person and the overman, (2) an incomplete overman who lives as an ordinary person but has inner properties of the overman and sometimes exposes its property as an overman, and (3) a marginal man who wants to be an overman but lives as an ordinary person because he/she could not cross the border. The complete overman is a self-closed being who confines him/herself to his/her desire, and is a self-confiding being who has absolute trust in his/her way of life and way of existence. By using this type of characters, Park, Kyung-ri succeeded in exposing universal property of human-being and asserting credibility of exceptional individuals who cannot associate with the outer world, and the strangers. However, this self-closed and self-confiding being restricts relationship with strangers and the outer world. Therefore, with only this type of characters, the world will be intense but can be only mono-cultured and narrow. With this point of view, incomplete overman and marginal man/woman are more realistic, and are more efficient in describing overall relationship between human-being and the world.