Wish All Loving Couples In The World Get Together!

There is a great deal of love plays in the Chinese ancient dramas. "Wish all loving couples in the world get together!" is the traditional mental state of the Chinese nation, is also an eternal topic of the Chinese dramas. In this aspect, the playwrights of Yuan dramas have the confidence on lives and arts for persist: must let the actual become the reasonable; must carry out the dreams of love and reunite in their hearts on the stages, and so that to let their magnificence ideal " Wish all loving couples in the world get together!" come out through a satisfactory art style, bring the warmth to the human life. Most of Yuan dramas take the men and women's love for the topics, presented to the public on the stages the songs which love wins the social morals, and the essence of human-being wins the law of nature. These works put forward the standard of love and marriage which entirely different from the traditional morals, and created a lot of rebellious female characters. There mainly are two types: the young ladies from aristocratic families; the prostitutes who degenerate in the society. Although they come from the different classes in the society, and their individual characters are also different,they all have the consciousness of equality, the characteristics of being bold and vigorous, and the thoughts of rebellious to against traditional codes and morals. Their whole ideal is to pursue love and happiness which take their own individuals' will on love as the center, while are not allowed by the society at that time. It presents the progress of Chinese ancient women's concessions on love and the hard process for fighting for the freedom of love and marriage. This research analyses the characteristics of these female images, and studies the whole personality and the character differences presented in these images. It ties to completely classify and comprehensively analysis all the female character images from the angel of classification in the love stories in all the Yuan dramas. The whole research is divided into four parts. Firstly, the female images in Yuan operas are classified into two types: the young ladies from aristocratic families (the characters in the scholar-beauty love plays); and prostitutes from brothels (the characters in the scholar-prostitutes love plays). Chapter 2 analyses the progressive ideal of love of the females in Yuan dramas. Discussions are based mainly on: the creation of ideal love, the standards of an ideal spouse, the basic requirements of an ideal love and the course of the pursuit of ideal love. Chapter 3 explains the female characters in the love plays in Yuan dramas from the angel of men's eyes. It mainly explains the series images of female characters who win the extensive praise from the angle of female-reading strategy. All these female images are the role substantially modeled by the ancient feudalism male power cultural, they also must ask for the help of male's power to complete the struggle to the actuality society.