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This writing is on the meaning of youth, family and intellectual revealed in the novel during the era of independence. The discussion on the youth of that time can be summarized as the discussion on the generation. To ensure the legitimacy of race, they overcame the father's generation and presented themselves as the subject of a new establishment of the country. In this context, family has a dualistic meaning. The history of the father's generation of independence movement and Japanophilism was something captivating as well as dangerous. Accordingly, they developed their identity as they continued on the history of the father's generation (『8.15, 1945』) or refused it (『haebang』). However, their discussion on the generation became impossible due to practical limitations after the establishment of government by South and North Korea. It was because the authority of the father's generation became rather reinforced along with the ideological situation of South and North Korea. In the midst of this situation, the role of intellectual showed a different aspect from the situation immediately after the independence. In the early period of independence, the ideal image of intellectual was the discussion on advancement centering on acting power, practice and science, but the image of intellectual as its opposition is being presented in 『Hyopoong』. However, it can be seen also in this alternative intellectual that it was placed in a situation where it was difficult to be materialized in novel.