작중인물의 윤리성 연구 - 채만식의 〈탁류〉를 중심으로

Morality of the Characters

  The modern age is a logos-centered society. The logos-centered society is based on self-proliferation. Self-proliferation in the modern age is conducted by a person"s self-regulating will. Therefore in the modern age a person"s behavior is judged by morals or ethics which is a law of behavior. The society where morals or ethics is not rigidly observed enjoys a subject that can"t be owned, and own and use up the subject unilaterally by its need.   The modern society discriminate Koreans and partition their living space. Discriminating Koreans" living space means discriminating their bodies. By partitioning the space, the power of Japanese imperialism betrayed itself as a ruler. Colonials identify colonialization with modernization, but in the end they experience a false image of colonization.   Logos is men"s territory in the modern age, and if that is valid, a man is just the modern age. That a woman identify herself with the modern age means that the woman identify herself with a man. Therefore the modern age can"t be morals or ethics that preserve femininity.   Che Mansik"s epic shows that Chobong, the heroine of the novel, resists a man and validate her existence by killing the man in the end. Che Mansik didn"t tell us what he wanted us to get to know in a direct way, but he let us know it by showing that his heroine get her femininity back and get her self-consciousness that makes it impossible for herself to escape from the subjugation of a man. His heroine"s life is the very morals or ethics that we need desperately. Che Mansik tell us that Korea is not the object but the other of imperialist Japan.