1920년대 한중 근대 여성작가 소설의 자유연애 실현과 그 갈등 양상

The Realization of Freedom of love and Its Conflicts in the Modern korean and Chinese Women's Novels in the 1920s

The purpose of this paper is to compare and review the realization of freedom of love and Its conflicts in the modern korean and Chinese Women's novels in the 1920s. In the 1920s, new women regarded freedom of love as one of the indicators of modernity and tried to realize subjectivity through it. However, in this process, various conflicts arose in the social and cultural layer, economic layer, and ethical layer. First of all, at the social and cultural layer, new women were facing conflicts with free will and betrothal by parents. Betrothal by parents started with the love of parents who set up a good marriage because they wanted their children to live a smooth life rather than recognizing it as a patriarchal evil custom. However, the open ending of Kim Myung-soon's "A girl's path", the incompleteness of "Lonely People", and the establishment of different ends in Feng yuan-jun's "Isolation" and "Delay" show that Korean and Chinese female writers have not found a solution to the conflict of free will and parents' love. At the economic layer, female writers of both countries have come to recognize that economic independence is an important condition for the realization of freedom of love and free marriage. Kim Myung-soon and Lu-In suggested that they must realize economic independence by highlighting the female protagonists who eventually commit suicide after marriage due to economic problems, and Kim Il-yeop and Ding-Ling must not rely on men but are economically independent. Meanwhile, Ding-Ling noted the cruel reality that even if women become self-reliant, it is still difficult to escape from the fate of becoming men's sexual products. Female writers of both countries identified and criticized the root cause of the ethical dilemma as false men. However, From the standpoint of new women, the selfish appearance of new women was rather exposed when embodying these ethical conflicts. Finally, at the ethical layer, new women were faced with an ethical dilemma between realizing love as the second wife of a married man and the sacrifice of the former woman, the headquarters. Kim Il-yeop and other Korean female writers justified their affair by claiming that love between new women and married men is a transitional issue, while Lu-In and other Chinese female writers said celibacy is the best way to resolve this ethical conflict by reflecting on marriage with married men.