On The Commercial Road South Korean Novel, " " Desire, " Topic

" Sang do ", the work of South Korean writer of fiction Choe in ho which promotes in turn of the century in 2000. It choose Lim sang ok who is the richest merchant in Yizhou,Northern Korea as the prototype and describs his legendary life: Originally Lim sang ok was a low-down grocery storesales clerk. With concentrating on business he became the richest man of Korea. His life has experienced three life and death disasters—Beijing merchants' boycotting red-ginseng movement, being compelled to participate the peasant rebellion, rescuing and being in love with the guilty minister's daughter Song-i. After experienced these he understood the mysteryof business and common customs. Latter Lim sang ok returned to countryside working in the farmland and reading poems. Finally he dispersed his completely property to become a "Business Buddha". The novel outlines a majestic spiritual road full of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism thought and North Korean Fengliu doxy. This road persisted by the people of lofty ideas during lots of dynasty. The "desire' hides each quoin of this road as a multi- surface ghost."Money" is humanity's inherent basic desire. Relavant human desire, the material desire is its most main part. Lim sang ok had a kind of dialectical money view. On the one hand, he looked upon earning money as the need of subsistence and embodiment of people's responsibility. On the other hand, People shouldn't be greedy to money. Though Lim sang ok always faced cattiness and deceit which money brought, he was safe because of his open-mind to the money and recognition to "the person". He threw common custom prejudice and took business an a career. The wealth like floating clouds in his mind. What he needed to do is an enterprise, but not money. This enterprise didn't take selfish desire satisfaction as the end, but had great courage to achieve the value of life.Besides the money and wealth desire, the pursue to the power is one of person's basic desires. Imperturbably" Sang do " gives voice to optimize person's spiritual moral character in front of power. Reading the story " Confucius strings bead" we vividly understand the subtle relations between wealth and power—The power and business can mutually collude. Although as a merchant, Lim sang ok did not serve the hour. He changed unrighteousness to righteousness using the wisdom. What he had done not only preserved his career, but also revealed beauty of the goodfaith. In addition, the novel portrays another person Hong gyeong rae to compare with Lim sang ok. Hong gyeong rae adored power and committed himself by fire of the power. Lim sang ok restrained the ambition to hold power. He did not become the sacrificial victim of the power just because of his unselfish mind. His moral nature gaseity that "satisfied with song and poetry" can never be abandoned by history.The passion is the most sensitive string in person's emotion .The material desire developing is able to draw forth the unscrupulous defending to love desire and the endless persue to the stimulates of sense organ. There are two passional test in Lim sang ok's life and he handed over the perfect answer paper in the tests. When twenty years old , Lim sang ok had the right to obtained the peerless beautiful virgin Jang mi ryeong in the Beijing whorehouse. He not only preserved Jang mi ryeong's chasteness, but also spend large amount of money on redeeming her out of whorehouse to save her whole life. Afterwards he met the beautiful official prostitute Song-i accidently. When he knew Song-i was Li hui jeo's posthumous child, who is Lin's confidant and died in Hong gyeong rae Rebellion.After knowing this, Lim sang ok had to take Song-i as his concubine to help her get rid of the official prostitute status. But Lim sang ok fell in love with her deeply. When Song-i's status divulged, she was in great danger. Between passion and reason Lim sang ok chose the latter. He lefy Song-i for the sake of her young life. Her the loftiness of soul covered the evil of desire. " Sang do " highlighted abnegate consciousness and correctly deal with gain and abandon in love. Thus itachieved the highest level of love. Behind this highest boundary exits the true love--Loves is not the occupancy , is not the greed, but is the offer. The novel has completed a writing process from "the nature" and "the desire" to "the sentiment" and "the love". In this process, "the sentiment" and "the desire" respectively both find their position .The novel also manifests the sublimation of humanity .The story "the murdering- knife and the rescuing-knife" is a story which connect "the desire" and the human nature good and evil ethics ideology. The "desire - human nature - good and evil "is the novel's deep-seated subject. "The murdering- knife" and "the rescuing- knife" respectively is the delegate of "good" and "evil" in human nature. The knife story manifests the author's regarding to the human character. He thinks people are kindhearted and evil combinations. Facing different kinds of desire, some people may change it to good but some may to evil, which depend on how to choose. Lim sang ok restrained his desire finally and held "the rescuing-knife", which expressed the author's hope and summon to people's kindhearted."Sang do" creates two classical literatures images "Content Cup"and "Wax Wing" when analys the desire. "Content Cup" is an image emboding Eastern spirit and understanding about desire. The "wax wing" leads Gim gi seop ,who is a modern people full of desire to the front curtain. It makes the character Gim gi seop the symbolize of world people, thus the novel subject have the world significance. Lim sang ok started well and ended well, but Gim gi seop died because of his desire of cars. The contrast between the two Eastern and Western image tells us the truth: Excessively greedy and indulgent, one will eventually have nothing. Only holds it to have, one may discard the nihility and remain the soul of his life.To the modern people facing to economy flood ," Sang do " enlightens profound significance. "Sang do " constructs life consciousness by the Eastern civilization. With the mild-mannered and cultivated narration style which comes of Eastern culture the novel tells people should be an rider which controls the desire, but is not its slave. People should learn how to deal with the desire correctly and reasonably. In the business road readers conjecture the desire of material, power and love through a series of small stories and keep their eyes on the desire which is the most intrepid heart evil in the cockles of human heart.