Female Images In North Korea Towards The Latter Part Of The Family Novel

The creation of the family novel is extremely active in late Chosen dynasty; because of its proportion and influence in ancient novel of Korean, it becomes the main force in the novel writing.Academics have different opinion for the concept and scope of the family novel. In general, it divides into broad concept and narrow concept. The broad concept includes the novel of filial piety, chastity, stepmother, rivalry. The narrow concept includes the novel of stepmother, rivalry. In this article, the concept of the family novel is defined in the narrow concept.I focus on the different female images of family novel in late Chosen dynasty. There are a lot of female images in the family navel in Chosen dynasty, but the research just stay at the local level. Some people study on the female images in the individual part of the fiction, some studying on the female images in separate family novel when they research the female images of ancient fiction. Now we don't see the studying on the female images of family in late Chosen dynasty.I try to interview the female images of family novel in late Chosen dynasty based on a detailed analysis the text of the late Chosen dynasty family novel and totally grasp the female images of family novel in the period.In this article, I try to breakthrough and innovation based on the results of previous studies by the research methods of social history and literature culture. This article includes six chapters.The first chapter is an introduction. In this part introduces the object, statue, purpose, and methods of research.In the second chapter I introduce the environment of female who live in the late Chosen dynasty. I introduce three aspects:social philosophy, environment of education and environmental change points. I do ground work for laying my article.In the third chapter, I analyze elaborately the female images of family novel in Chosen dynasty. There are the daughters, the ladies, the concubine, the mother, and the maids.Firstly, I analyze the daughter images. After the confusion become the rule of philosophy in Chosen dynasty, the ruling class gradually strength the patriarchal thinking in order to consolidate the statue of patriarchal. For daughters, the family is the first place of socialization, in family, they receive the train of gender and learn how to be a female according the manner of ruling by social, receive the train of the patriarchal and learn how to identify their own position, obeys parental authority. Since the date of birth, the girls of family novel are treated different with the boys, they think that women are not as good as men, and women are cheaper than man.Under the influence of patriarchal culture in long time, the daughters gradually turn the forced things into their own value orientation, so they think that their brothers are important than themselves, the reason is that the boys can inherit their parents'heirs. At the same time, as a girl, they often have to withstand the abuse of stepmother. In family novel, many stepmothers would hurt ex-wife's daughter, charge their disloyal, and ask their father to make the daughter to out of the door. However, the girls never resist and obedient their parent. They show the fatalist outlook on life that their misery just because of pre-existent sin.On the other hand, in the Chosen dynasty, not only does the daughter received strict monitoring and isolation with the outside when they as child, but also do they not have freedom when they in adult. They don't have ideals, even they have not their own right of marriage, and they must obey their parents'words. In the family novel, the daughter must obey her father in the marriage, her father very care about in daughter's mate. He focus on the principle of "perfect match", he wants to maintain its sphere of influence of family through his daughter's marriage.Of course, in the family novel, the daughter shows their filial piety to their parents, there are two aspects that worship late parents and take care of sick parents.Secondly, I analyze the images of wife and concubine. Although the wife and the concubine are both the husband's mate, they are significant difference in legal status, social status and economic status in Chosen dynasty. In the family novel, because the wife accepts the thought of feudal tradition, they comply with feminine virtue specification, consciously maintain the family order and ethical norms. The wife married, they are control under the ethical norms, and their first problem to solve is heirs. They advise their husband to find a concubine in order to solve the heirs. The wife must a woman who doesn't jealousy. They doesn't jealousy and angry face the act that the concubine rivalry. The wife ignore their husband find concubine, but they thinks it is important that the husband's fame. Because they think the fame is the filial piety for ancestor, and also it realizes their value, they show more firmly and encourage their husband to conduct fame when their husband shows hesitate before expedition.In contract, although jealousy and sexuality are regard as an enemy of woman's ethics by the feudal traditional ethics, the concubine value their personal passions, rivalry with the wife, template their husband, exclude the wife and persecute the peaceful atmosphere of the family. Mostly of them are beautiful and staunch, some of them unscrupulously hurt the wife, some ganging up with man, some even out of control emotion, failed feeling and ration destroy, their mental disorder.Thirdly, I analyze the images of mother. In Chosen dynasty, mother's duty is help her husband and conduct her children. It is the most important that the mother conduct her children who don't marriage. In contract, although the stepmother is also a mother, they are vicious, play plot, and hurt the ex-wife's children. Finally they lost the humanity.Lastly, I analyze the images of maids. Maids'identity is mean since ancient times, their images are often materialized in works. The maids' showing is just as same as their master, in family novel, some of them especially kind, particularly loyal to their master and even give up own life to save their master. Some of them particularly wicked, they play plot with her master.In the forth chapter, I trace the prototype of women images in the family novels from the Korean myth works. This path, I try to find out what the women of the family novels inherit female tradition through tracing the myth images, and grasp the origin of spirit of the Korean women in the family.In the fifth chapter, I explore the construction of the male writers and female image. Through analyzing the positive women images who the male writers describe in the family novels, I summarize the writer's state of mind and subjective intent in order to grasp the ideological of male literati of Chosen dynasty.The sixth chapter is conclusion. I collate and summarize the contents described in this paper, and clarify the limitation that the male writers write women images. In short, I adhere to the principle of close reading, analyze the works form combination of macro-history background and micro-works base on the family novels of Chosen dynasty. I draw on the results of previous studies, study the images of women in the family novels, and trace its images of myth, reveal the origin of sprit of women image that the women of late Chosen dynasty in the family, and the characteristics that the male writers write the images of women in the family novels. I think my paper will benefit for the studying that research the women image of family novel of Korea enlighten period and modern era, that is innovation of my paper.