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The love and existence that can be found in the acts of the characters that appear in 'Toji' has a philosophical reason on the method of loving and method of living. The way of loving is the way of living, and at the same time , it shows how loving lets people live. The deep interlocking of love and existence represent the stage of immature love and immature existence. If Anthony Giddens' passionate love is a love of obsession for something immature through an aesthetic love , then Kierkegaard' s aesthetic phase can also be deemed an initial existence that is set far apart from romantic will and a sense of responsibility.
Of the characters that appear in 'Toji'’ the love of Lee Y ong and Gong Wol-seon can be seen as a mature love that goes beyond the initial existence. While showing the continuity of romantic love, by truly loving and caring for Hongi, the child of Lim’ s, it shows a higher maturity in the religious existence phase. The love of Gi-hwa to Sang-hyeon and the love of In-sil towards Ogada creates and holds fast to a love that is greater than life , and has an even more matured love and existential phase.
However, the love and existence of other characters were unable to show a confluent love or religious existence. Their intent was more of a desire from interests or personal lust rather than love. This remains in the aesthetic stage and lacks the two-directional relation of passionate love , and thus , it shows existence at a low phase and immature love.
The reason why one must continuously think and reflect upon love even while loving is because of the desire for the eternity of love' s continuity and existence. Even if one is in confluent love. it must coexist with passionate love and romantic love. and even if one is in an ethical existence phase. human existence must be accompanied with continuous reflection as if they have a desire for eternal love and life. The reason why 1 defined the theme of 'Toji' with the two words of 'love' and
'existence' is because of my belief that the continuity of love and the creation of existence closely reciprocates in our lives and is continuously on its way to internal evolution and extension.