Abstract

This paper focuses on female characters' sex consciousness and expression of affection for male characters described in the novels written by eight Korean female writers who worked mainly during 1920-1930, and during 1980-1990. Before that, this paper briefly studies the female characters' sex consciousness and expression of affection for men pictured in the poems written by six classic female poets in the context of the writers' real lives. In result, there have been roughly two different types of women regardless of difference of time, one is independent in sex consciousness and positive in expression of affection for men, on the contrary the other is quite dependent in sex consciousness and passive in expression of love for other sex. This shows that although equal rights of both sexes have been almost guaranteed through many times of legal development, women in Korea are still living in the society of patriarch nowadays.