A Comparative Study Of The Prototype Of "Dream Of The Red Chamber" And "Hundred Years Of Solitude"

Archetypal criticism is a kind of literary criticism mode, which is originated in the 20th century in the British and is called "The only truly international literary criticism" with marxist criticism and psychoanalytic criticism. Archetype is psychological accumulation about human’s experience and destiny, which are widespread in the myths and legends, religion, literature, and the dream. The prototype has the stability of the content and polytropy of form. Variability in the form of the means for different countries culture tradition, in many cultural expression is present in the form of different, the content of stability is to point to although each country literary tradition in prototype form vary, but these prototypes to express the meaning of in much the same. So the archetypal criticism is a method to apply to the whole world literature criticism. It can across the nationality, break the cultural boundaries, find all common original experience in literary works, and discover the "genetic" at the bottom of human’s memory from the literature.In Chinese and foreign history of literature, there are many works can be called the treasures, A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude are two of the treasures. The study and research methods of the two great literary works are varied, however, on a comparison study of the two great literary works by the method of archetypal criticism is still rare. This paper attempts to research the similarities about A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude in the perspective of archetypal criticism, hope to find something new.It should be pointed out that besides the introduction part, the remaining chapters are roughly along the following train of thought to construct the framework:Firstly,the paper will state the archetype in the two works reflected, and then analyze and compare the archetype’s significance presented in the two works, finally carry on the brief summary of the chapter.This thesis is mainly divided into the following parts:The introduction part is divided into three, the first section mainly discusses the A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude research present situation, points out that the case study of the two works is very rich, hence there are "redology". However, from the perspective of archetypal criticism on comparing the two works is less. From the aspects of archetypal criticism on a comparison of the two can be found that two works have a lot of similarities, though they are in different cultural environment,which was one of the research field of vision to expand; The second section mainly elaborated the rise and development of the archetypal criticism, and the three disciplines which impacted archetypal criticism will be introduced; The third section mainly expounds the A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude in the union of archetypal criticism, this is the premise of the two texts in the comparison. At the same time, given the numerous versions of the two works, therefore, this section will make a brief description of the two versions of choice.The first chapter mainly analyze the archetype of the mirror in A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Firstly the paper collects archetype of the mirror in the concrete embodiment of the two works, and then contacts the mirror on the mythology, religion to analyze the mirror in each other the role of the two works, points out that Mirror of Love in A Dream of Red Mansions and the city of the mirror in One Hundred Years of Solitude or cure disease, alert the world in his works, or self-understanding, forecast the unknown, to reveal the theme, The archetype of mirror is a role.The second chapter is mainly about the archetype of ghost in A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude. This chapter firstly list the archetype of ghost in the two works, and then discuss the universality of ghosts archetype in works. Between the two works have a quirky existence of ghosts and gods and the archetype of ghost in the works are played a certain degree of signal and rescue action.The third chapter is mainly about the archetype of mother in A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Who can reflect the mother characters in the two works are Jia mu, yuan lady, Mrs Xing,Mrs Wang and Ursula Higuain, Pilar Ternera and Petra Kesite etc. These displacements of the mother archetype can be divided into two kinds in accordance with the meaning, one kind is the reproductive significance, one kind is to save, one kind is regression. Worldwide, generally there is a mother’s archetype, which not only can be seen from the myths and legends, but also can be seen from the unearthed statue around. Attachment to mother always hidden in human memory, and finally can be shown through the literary works.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the archetype of the prophet in A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude. First of all, the two works have a character of the existence of the prophet like Jing huan xian gu and Melquiades. They play a role about prediction and enlightenment in their works. Writing this, on the one hand, the works attract the interest of the readers to explore, on the other hand the archetype is to strengthen the stories’ interesting.The fifth chapter is mainly about the archetype of the structure in A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude. The structure of the two works are presented a state of circular loop, both of them are a "no - have - no" process; At the same time, on the structure of the two works are related to Fry’s four seasons cycle theory, the ups and downs of the two families whole process can be divided into four stages:spring, summer, autumn and winter,which forms a loop system.Conclusion part summarizes the above views, and the final point will be put forward:through the above chapters analysis and comparison, we find that in A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude have many similar archetypes, and the role of these archetypes in the text are similar too. At the same time, the conclusion part also discusses the two works as a realistic significance of the research on archetypal criticism.A Dream of Red Mansions and One Hundred Years of Solitude are the two different culture highly traditional literature in their fields. For these research, by using the method of archetypal criticism can be found the similarity of the two works. On one hand, this can confirm that both of them can be shared within the scope of world literature works beyond nationality, national boundaries; On the other hand, further evidence of the use of archetypal criticism to analyze literary works under different cultural background is completely feasible.