Research On The Tragedy Art Of A Dream Of Red Mansion

It is incontrovertible that A Dream in Red Mansions is the pinnacle of Chinese classical tragedy novel.However, how does the tragedy of the novel take artistic effect?According to Abrams’Theory of Literature and Art, literary activity consists of4basic elements:world, writer, reader and literature. They are mutual penetration and interaction.Therefore, we cannot assess the position of A Dream in Red Mansion’s tragedy art without discussion of these factors.The author’s experience deeply influenced the formation of the consciousness of his literary creation. Thereby, the novel’s sad emotion determined.It is easy for tragedy to make people have sad emotional experience. The clues that throughout the novel are all end up with unsaveable destruction, such as the demise of the family, love conclusion, the disillusionment of the ideal life.However, the Aesthetic purpose of A Dream in Red Mansions is not to make people addict to sad emotion, but to arouse people’s resist consciousness before valuable dream destroyed. Writer described tragedy of the youth and children, and that of the bad guys who do not deserve a good fate, and also tragedy of those "middleman" between beauty and ugliness.Therefore, the tragedy in the novel is ubiquitous in our life. The conflicts that constitute the art of tragedy are universal and inevitable.But not all the conflicts keep changeless development speed. The conflicts that sometimes discontinuous and mutual opposite view constitute the feature of A Dream in Red Mansions.These Contradictory entanglements deeply rooted in life and social reality. They collide with each other through development and form the inevitable conflict which has significant influence on the structure, theme and characterization.The echo of important plot is the consequence of the conflicts. The multiple subjects and development of personal character is the result of changing conflicts.In addition, the last40character is the echo and connecting of the tragedy conflicts in former80characters.It is easy to find by comparison that, the description of tragedy conflict in last character is dramatic and externingiz. The81character also played a vital role in making novel coherent.On the basis of a sufficient reason why A Dream in Red Mansions is an artistic work of tragedy, when you refer to the important view of contemporary tragedy research, you will find that neither and "Double tragedy","destruction of beauty" nor "conflict of love, father and son" can leave without the support of tragic conflict.Based on the analysis and evaluation of above point of view, we get a further understanding of the tragic art of the novel. Especially the discussions on "Common crime" that can make us avoid misunderstanding on tragic art on the basis of confirming the value of tragic conflict.