The Story Of The Stone Monkey And Parallel Prose

The text mainly studies the parallel prose in the novel The Story of the Stone Monkey. The origin that the novel combines with parallel prose which was the unconscious behavior of novelist can trace back to the Wei-Jin dynasty when the parallel prose is in a period of great prosperity. The prose romance in the Tang dynasty is the beginning of that the classic novel uses parallel prose. To the Ming dynasty, novel still maintain tradition of using parallel prose. But in different dynasties, using parallel prose in different novels is different from others. According to the order of history, it is basically in a combination of continuously raising the level of progress status and not reaches a peak in number and density of using parallel prose until The Story of the Stone Monkey. So The Story of the Stone Monkey is called strong performer of using parallel prose in novel.This text is divided into four parts. The first part is shown from the historical origin of parallel prose and novel. It mainly card the clue of parallel prose infiltrating to novel before The Story of the Stone Monkey so that it presents the advance of parallel prose in The Story of the Stone Monkey. The second part classifies on parallel prose in The Story of the Stone Monkey according to its function. It is divided into description of scenery and environment,battle scene,character, narrative to lyric, comment to reasoning, single piece of parallel prose , interphase of parallel prose and prose seven categories. The writer can reflect narrative and comment with parallel prose, which are parallel prose's weakness, so the parallel prose in novel can be used everywhere. The third part is the most important part of the text. It focuses on the four elements of parallel prose in The Story of the Stone Monkey——dual,allusion,rhythmic and embellishment. In different novel, parallel prose's four elements are different, so we can see fusion degree of parallel prose and novel. To the Ming dynasty, The Story of the Stone Monkey is the masterpieces of this. In addition, the interphase of parallel prose and prose, the influence of parallel prose to novel are deeply analysised so that we can see both parallel prose and novel fusion to each other. The last part, I put The Story of the Stone Monkey in the background of parallel prose ,and compare it with before two famous books about using parallel prose, then in lateral and longitudinal intersection present the distinctive of the parallel prose in The Story of the Stone Monkey. Therefore I come to a conclusion that in three famous books, The Story of the Stone Monkey is in transition phase of parallel prose's interposing novel and fusion degree gradually enhance with it. Not compared with The Story of The Stone, but it reaches a peak in the number and density of using parallel prose. This not only find the way out of parallel prose under bad luck but also add vitality for art embody of novel, and meanwhile makes parallel prose walk in broad road of promoting elegance of popular novel.