The Analysis Of The Stories Of Love Affairs In 'San Yin' And 'Er Par'

The plots of?San Yin æ…´y Fung Mun-lung and?Er Par æ…´y Lin Mun-chor are mainly composed of lots of love affairs through which the authors intend to reflect the prevalent belief in the pursuit of sensuous pleasures and lust among the people of the Ming Dynasty. Obviously the authors also serve as preachers of morality in an indirect manner. Accordingly, the affairs depicted in the stories go beyond merely pornographic writings on the grounds that they contain implications which require the readers to dig into. Apart from these, comparing the scenes of affairs in the ?San Yin æ…³nd ?Er Par ?we can distinguish the differences and similarities of writing techniques between the authors of these two books. To a great extent, Fung and Lin are similar in their ways of developing an affair and building up the intense action in their novels. As for the ending of the novels, the two authors are quite different from each other in terms of their attitudes towards indecent love affairs. Fung seems to be more sensible and convincing in his way of putting an end to his masterpiece. Generally, those unmarried people who are involved in an affair would come to a happy ending of some sort of union while those who are married would receive severe punishment in one way or another. On the contrary, Lin sounds much more lenient towards those married people who still involve themselves in an affair. In his work, there are two stories in which the married people who are having an affair unexpectedly come to a happy ending, which sounds contradictory to the norms of society. So people generally have the impression that ?Er Par? is more enlightened and lenient in accepting adultery or unfaithfulness than?San Yin? and yet, by means of an analysis of the plots and diction,people will realize that Lin is not at all more enlightened and lenient than Fung. Basically, Fung and Lin are more or less the same in their attitudes towards adultery and affair, but Fung sounds more 2 moderate than Lin in terms of choice of words or diction. He sometimes deliberately describes the affairs or adulteries between unmarried people as æ…’ung Liu?in Chinese which means æ…ºlirting in a sophisticated way? whereas Lin is much more severe and strict in his choice of words. To conclude, ?San Yin æ…³nd?Er Par æ…³re not only telling stories of love affairs and adultery but also preaching people about morality at an elevated level.