뱀[蛇] 서사의 다층성과 문화콘텐츠로의 재현 - 사신(蛇神)과 요괴의 성격을 중심으로 -

초록

This study set out to analyze the multi-layered nature of the snake in classical narratives and review the patterns of snake narratives being reproduced with monsters in cultural content. Primitive minds worshiped the snake as a symbol of life and death, healing, life force, reproduction, and abundance across different cultural areas. The nature of the snake, however, divided and changed amid the segmentation of imagination and the relationship between faith and ideology. In Korea, the snake holds divine status as a god of wealth, migration, and illness on the Jeju Island and also has the nature of monsters evidenced in the story of Gimnyeongsa Cave. In modern cultural content, the snake is usually reproduced as a monster. The movie D-War presents monster serpents representing good and evil, respectively. In the movie, the evil monster serpent is depicted as a monster to threaten and destroy the human world and confronted by the good monster serpent. The movie discards the old viewpoint of depicting the snake as a monster unilaterally, but it adopts the typical confrontation structure between good and evil in repeating the world view of tales. In The Chosen: Forbidden Cave, a monster is explained as fear that is created internally and refuses to go away through the Gimnyeongsa Cave, Jeju April 3 Incident, revengeful ghosts, and confrontation between shamanism and Christianity. The transcendent power of the snake as an evil god is combined with a woman holding grudge against someone in tragic history and passed down through generations. In this movie, the monster symbolizes human violence and anger and revenge against it, moving between reality and unreality through historical events. In the webtoon series A Girl Taoist Hermit with Miraculous Powers, Kkangcheori presents a counterargument to the monster serpents found in these two movies. He is defined as a monster by Taoist hermits with miraculous powers, but he has a warmer heart than anyone else. He is irritable, but he is reproduced as an ideal man that is charming and kind. The fantasy of a monster found in him is represented as animus found in deep unconsciousness. In cultural content, the snake is presented as a monster living around people, which shows that fear, anxiety, and terror represented by the snake is scattered around them. The present study reinterpreted it based on the inherent imagination of classical narratives instead of getting buried in fear and examined relations between man and monster, thus holding its significance.

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