A Study On Females Consciousness Of Wan-Seo Park's Novel

Wan-Seo Park is the contemporary woman writer in Korea. Her novel mainly narrates a set of problem, such as the 6.25 Korea war, separation of nationalities, the suppression and liberation of women, and life style of old age, etc, in which the author manifest vividly how human being is isolated with the war and industrialization, and gives a detailed description of the complex psychological conflict of human beings.Especially when depicting the female figure, Wan-Seo Park genuinely portrays the chaos of identity and marginalization that woman encountered, and their effort and the reasons of their failure for the new identity, which has gone beyond the significance of the historical experience.Especially when depicting the female figure, Wan-Seo Park genuinely portrays the chaos of identity and marginalization that woman encountered, and their effort and the reasons of their failure for the new identity, which has gone beyond the significance of the historical experience.Firstly, the paper explored the transitional process from pre-modern to the modern times described in the first part of the novel series, which analyzed the mother and daughter's experience of the chaos of identity, and thereafter caused the process of marginalization. It tries to conclude how women's self-marginalization bring crisis to their self-esteem and dependence.Secondly, it analyzed the efforts of women who were isolated and experienced the chaos of identity in modern times. It could be concluded that the effort was the outcome of their consciousness of self-protection. Then the paper analyzed how this effort was changed into the desire for the modern times. In "mom's stake", son and daughter were the mediator of mother's desires. Such desire structure caused false self to people, which is very limited.Then, it analyzed profoundly the behavior style and ideology that women had done with to restore the identity. As mentioned above, the false self by blind imitation trough mediator would be restricted by itself and the crisis of standard character will be felt again. When failed in the effort for creating new identity, the women would try to restore to the standard character of initial stage. However, the existence of women can not be recovered before the massive historical sense.Lastly, it analyzed the ingenious combination of composing techniques and theme. If a novel is required to demonstrate its literariness, both a highly whole narrative story and according composing technique and style are needed. In "mom's stake", the inner psychology of the heroine was well revealed from the first-person perspective who suffered the chaos of the self-chaos of political system. Proper introduction of motif was helpful to embody the main consciousness, functioning positively.As mentioned above, analyzing the female figure in the Wan-Seo Park novel series "mom's stake", this paper concludes Korea women image who was isolated by the reality in the false historical concept, but positively participate in the society and overcome the pain and shortcoming of themselves with their standard character.