〈柳淵傳〉의 惡人 형상과 그 행방

The Villain Form and its traces in Yooyeonjeon

&nbsp;&nbsp;This study focuses on two major problems：the seventeenth-century villain form and its traces in Yooyeonjeon(柳淵傳). At first I searched major conflicts in Yooyeonjeon written in the early seventeenth century and then tried to explore traces of the villain form which are made at the point of collision.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yooyeonjeon contains a variety of contradictions. They are as follows：a legitimate son ran away from home and it caused discord of succession of descent and inheritance. The family members intrigue against each other, the unfair lawsuit is proceeding by a false accusation and finally a character meets his end. All of these shows us that characters in Yooyeonjeon can&quot;t live in harmony and this circumstance enables the villain form to appear spontaneously.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;There are threefold conflicts in Yooyeonjeon and villain form is caused by them. When the succession of ancestor worship is performed by “Hyeongmangjegup”(兄亡弟及; some kind of practise law), Mrs. Baek(白氏), the first daughter-in-law(？婦), reveals hardness of heart for the sake of her own living and social position. When Yooyeon(柳淵) tries to inherit a fortune from his father by ignoring lawful equalized inheritance, Leeji(李？) who is full of complaints shows us an avaricious look of a man of influence. Shimtongwon(沈通源) forms an incompetent judge through a conflict between a miscarriage of justice which demeaned the authority and a retrial which recovers a fall of power through correcting. Meanwhile why Mrs. Baek doesn&quot;t reveal a typical villain is that the early seventeenth century couldn&quot;t establish a powerful patriarchal society yet. This is the very difference of villain form between Yooyeonjeon and Changsungameulok(彰善感義錄) and Sassinamjungki(謝氏南征記) written in the late seventeenth century.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yooyeonjeon quotes the villain form from true story. A variety of villain forms caused by threefold conflicts can be divided into two branches; one assumes public character which contains Shimtongwon and the other private which covers Mrs. Baek and Leeji. These kinds of villain forms help to build creative foundations where various villain forms in late Chosun can derive.