A Study On The Narrative Climax In "A Dream Of Red Mansions"

The concept of narrative climax in "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a concept that gradually matures and forms with the creation,publication,commentary,dissemination and reception of it.According to the key words that define "narrative climax art",such as the core characters,the main contradictions,the aftereffects,the turning point of the event,and the purview of the novel,the six high tide events can be sorted out,they are,the homecoming by Jia Yuanchun Imperial Concubine,the beating of Jia Baoyu,the offering of a banquet at Jia clan’s ancestral hall,the rummaging of the Grand View Garden,the death of Lin Daiyu and the marriage of Xue Baochai,the confiscating and exterminating of Jia clan’s.The six climax events respectively take the princess of Jia,Jia Baoyu,Jia Zhen and Jia Zheng’s mother,Jia Zheng’s wife and Wang Xifeng,Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai,Jia Zheng as the core characters.The six climax events have repeatedly used such repetition and innovation,interval art,a change between identical and different,foreshadowing and subsequent impact,a thousand branches of a event.They are centered on the prosperity of the family,leave no successors,exhausting of the kindness of ancestors,the ideal world is disturbed by the reality,the destruction of the emotion and other major issues.They are jointly inferenced the story of the rise and fall of Jia clan and the love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu.Among them,the homecoming by Jia Yuanchun Imperial Concubine is not only the climax of Jia clan’s political revival in the process of decline,but also the transition from the theme of "the Precious Mirror of Romance " to the theme of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu’s love,and Jia clan’s rise and fall;the beating of Jia Baoyu is the core to the philosophy of "feeling comprehension" on Jia Baoyu’s life,the climax of the conflict between secularity and secularity,and the climax of the failure of the novel "making up the sky with man";Since the offering of a banquet at Jia clan’s ancestral hall’s climax,the narrative theme of the novel has shifted from joy and harmony to sorrow and resentment,and the focus of the narrative has shifted to the writing of contradictions and struggles among all parties;the rummaging of the Grand View Garden is the climax of Jia’s " internal political economy" exhaustion,suicide and self-destruction,the destruction of "the ideal world" by " the secular world" and the tragedy of his maidservant.The outbreak of the Grand View Garden marks the heated internal contradictions and Jia clan’s miserable preview;The death of Daiyu and the marriage of Baochai is the core of the whole novel "dreamlike love line",which declares the failure of "wood stone alliance",and represents the disillusionment of love,poetry and youth in the novel;the confiscating and exterminating of Jia clan is the commanding point of the decline of the big family,the final intersection of the rise and fall line of the family and the love line of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu,and the general reference to other climaxes of "A Dream of Red Mansions".These above-mentioned climax events are full of variety and unity.On the basis of following the law of life and art,they all have a beginning,a foreshadowing and a development,"from quantitative change to qualitative change".The plot with the most intense conflicts,the most full image of the core characters and the most distinct theme expression will push the story to the climax,so as to mobilize the audience’s emotions to the maximum extent.After the climax,the plot will not stop abruptly,but will slow down or speed up the follow-up influence,so that the whole story presents a good rhythm and heavy sense.And,we should continue to add the new plot chains,transform hubs,and start another new content,so as to lead out the subsequent climax events.No matter the rise and fall line of the family or the love line of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu,they are all expounding the destruction of the beautiful things,which is the unity of the climax art of "A Dream of Red Mansions";because of the different emphases of the climax events,the forms and contents of the disillusionment are different,which is also the change of the climax art of "A Dream of Red Mansions".By exploring the climax event and its artistic features in "A Dream of Red Mansions",we can sum up that the climax event of the novel should have four characteristics: symmetry of structure,repeated diversity of techniques,unity of similarity and difference of plots,stereotype of characters.These four aspects should be unified in the main line of the novel and serve the main purpose of it.This is not only a necessary condition for judging whether many events are climax events,but also another standard for judging the level of techniques when dealing with climax events in the first 80 and the last 40 chapters of "A Dream of Red Mansions".