A Study Of The Tragic Implication Of Journey To The West

“Hsi-yu chi” was the one of Chinese four classical masterpieces. It was also the peak of the ancient romantic novels. The book created by combining the ideas and contents of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, drawing support from the story of the Tang Priest’s Journey for Scriptures in the history, and inheriting large art materials from the ancient story, after hardly recreation create, finally it became a masterpiece literary with unique personal style. The book used the writing skill of satire that was a metaphor of the reality of society in the world of gods and Buddhas, cleverly combines the kindness will ridicule, pungent satire and serious criticism. At the same time, it has full literary. This paper analysis the background of “Hsi-yu chi” in order to find the source of the tragedy meaning, and take the common points of “Ironic” and“purification” in Aristotle’s tragedy theory as the tragedy implication. The paper refined the content of the tragedy in the “Hsi-yu chi”,so people can appreciate the tragic implications in it.This paper is divided into three chapters. The first chapter try to find the social roots which tragedy meaning of “Hsi-yu chi” arisen from, and to discuss the theoretical basis of the tragedy meaning from the similarities of concept of “irony” and“purification”. The second chapter summarizes the development of western tragedy theory, and introduces the theory of tragedy theorists, the “Hsi-yu chi” reflects the contents of the theory of tragedy summarized as the following three parts: “the fate tragedy of the human and innocent demon ”, “the hero tragic of the Monkey King failure against ”, “the ethics tragedy about Monkey King and Tang Priest”, analysis the embodiment of the theory of tragedy and the tragedy implication. The third chapter from the fusion of “Hsi-yu chi” in the “comedy” composition and implication of”the tragedy” and “Sadness” discusses the tragedy implication of the “Hsi-yu chi”.