17세기 여성대상 산문의 남성의 여성인식과 여성의 삶

A Study of Works about Women Written in Seventeenth Century

&nbsp;&nbsp;This article analyzes three forms of writings dedicated to the dead women, such as records of deceased persons&quot;s lives(行狀), funeral orations (祭文), and epitaphs(墓誌銘), written by male authors in the seventeenth century.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;This article also tries to illuminate both how men expressed their emotions toward women and how women&quot;s lives of that time, which are rarely known to us, were revealed in those writings.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Those three kinds of writings, written in prose forms with due formality and reminiscent of dead women, more specifically, dead mothers, wives, daughters-in-law, and daughters, not only express their sufferings of loss, loves, and regrets, but also functions as means of revelation of how women&quot;s real lives were during that time.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Those lives revived through male authors&quot; memory in their own ways show there existed two kinds of lives for the seventeenth-century women.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;First, there were lives of subordination to men. Second, there were lives of their own. In the lives of subordination, women were to live the lives of so-called "good women", or "good housekeepers" as mothers, wives, daughters-in-law, or daughters according as the male-dominated society forced them too.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;On the other hand, ironic enough, under these living conditions in the second lives, women lived or, at least, tried to live "full" as active, "living" entities.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;For this study, the following works were selected and analyzed. First, for records of deceased persons&quot;s lives, man-jung Kim&quot;s Yoonsihaengjang and sac-back Lee&quot;s Kimsihangjang, and for funeral orations, rome works by si-yeul Song and su-hang Kim were selected and analyzed.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The reasons why man-jung kim&quot;s work was selected for records of person&quot;s is man-jung kim&quot;s work is included in school&quot;s textbooks and so widely known to and is still being read by readers. sac-back lee&quot;s work was selected in order to understand emotional attitudes commonly shared by the contemporaries of the author.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;For funeral orations, much consideration was taken into si-yuel song&quot;s work, because of the fact that he was the typical orthodox Confucian scholar in the seventeenth century and he coauthored with his wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law.