The aim of this paper is to reveal the nature of its popular and interesting through closely examining the popularity of Chunhyangjeon. In this paper, first of all, on the internal ground about the popularity of Chunhyangjeon the principle form of mel...
The aim of this paper is to reveal the nature of its popular and interesting through closely examining the popularity of Chunhyangjeon. In this paper, first of all, on the internal ground about the popularity of Chunhyangjeon the principle form of melodrama was studied, and the results are as follows;
First, the epic development of Chunhyangjeon shows dramatic narrative structure by irony, the swift change and reverse using contingency, contradiction, and the typical melodramatic principle of form that is episode structure.
Second, the aspects of conflict structure not only shows the conflict type dichotomizing good and evil, but also the characteristic of the conflict shows melodramatic structure principle that is collision between old custom and the extrusion of new desire. And, the solution aspects of conflict also shows the typical melodramatic structure principle on the side of the moral esthetics presenting the moral vision and making a happy ending by encouraging the good and punishing the evil.
Third, the subject that the epic narrative development and the conflict structure of Chunhyangjeon means, has the typical melodramatic subject in the that female desire exposing through Chuhyang overcomes the forbidden and oppression of patriarchal ideology symbolizing class distinction and fulfills the romantic love.
Fourth, the inserting narrative song, the exaggerated acting and gesture, and the pattern of emotional excess which is reflected in the private poetic diction and the mise-en-scene element of the detail description method, that is the musical element of Chunhyangjeon, they indicate the melodramatic structure principle of Chunhyangjeon.
Also, in the view of the results of study on the Korean breeding foundation of Chunhyangjeon that has the soap opera form principle, its aspects of the latter part of Joseon Dynasty period was created in modern turning point, is similar to the breeding foundation of Western melodrama. Therefore, it was revealed that the melodramatic Korean breeding foundation of Chunhyangjeon had been arranged to some extent.
The result of above discussion that has melodramatic characteristics is inner proof that Chunhyangjeon has received popularity and interest from the public for centuries. It can be said that the melodramatic form principle of Chunhyangjeon itself is popularity. That is to say, that is the reason that the popularity of a work is thought on the premise of favor and interest of the public. The result that Chunhyangjeon has melodramatic characteristics is significant of that its popular and interest is inner merits of this novel. In addition, in that the melodramatic characteristic, that has been revealed the inner strength of the work, is the stylistic and structural features of the work, the melodramatic formal characteristics are the essential basis and proof of the popularity and interest of the novel Chunhyangjeon.