Abstract

This article takes the female characters with disabilities in Noh Hee-Kyeong’s TV series as the research object, and uses Lacan’s mirror theory and aggression theory to analyze the characteristics of female characters with disabilities, the metaphor of disability as a power discourse, and the self-identity challenges and aggressive nature of female characters with disabilities' narratives. The research results are as follows: First, the women with disabilities characters in Noh Hee-Kyeong’s TV series all grew up in incomplete native families. Their personality formation is deeply influenced by their father or mother, and they have some kind of paranoia or defect. Secondly, with the exception of those with Down syndrome, female characters with disabilities all have beautiful looks. The screenwriter chose visual impairments, hearing impairments and mental impairments that do not affect femininity, so that female characters with disabilities still have sexual appeal. Disability metaphors contain deep gendered power discourses. Thirdly, the love narratives of women with disabilities are intrusive in nature. Whether it is a physical disability or a mental disability, women with disabilities are not treated equally by men without disabilities. They are still tools to satisfy men's desire for conquest.

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