아이러니와 소설

Irony and Novel

Irony was originated from Greek comedy. This shows ambivalence of human life. And the epistemological value of this consist s in reflecting the realities which can not discriminate between right and wrong. An alazon is the one who bothers the weaker character, eiron. But this relation is rever sed, an offender alazon becomes the sufferer eiron and vice ver sa. So an eiron was essentially an alazon, an alazon was essentially an eiron. Ko-su is a novel wriiten by a famous writer, Hwang Seok-young, and an apt example of irony. Character s in this short novel represent the relation between alazon and eiron. Mr. Gil who had seemed to be eiron turned out to be an alazon, and the hunchback who had seemed to be alazom turned out to be an eiron. Irony embraces this ambivalence. Consequently, life is this sort of ambivalence. Irony is a way to the real meaning of our life.