Study On The Connotation Of Bosom-friend In Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling is a high-profile immortal classic in Chinese literary history .As a magnificent masterpiece in the special era , Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio bears too much connotation of the emotion, marriage, society, politics and culture except that Pu Songling reposed his personal grief, delight and ideals in those stories. The rich connotation made the book become amazingly profound and significant. This thesis argues that Pu Songling created the novel with the deep motivation of desiring for bosom friends. Therefore, we can better understand the author's great intention and more accurately grasp the implications contained in the plots, characters and narrative techniques of the novel through analyzing the bosom- friend complex of Pu Songling.The value and innovation of this thesis lies in choosing Pu Songling's motivation of seeking bosom friends and pouring out his loneliness and anger as the starting point ,deeply digging the connotation of bosom friends penetrated in the whole novel, and dividing it into three progressive levels. Besides ,the thesis combines the author's views on female with his views on friendship ,analyzes the reason why the author reposed his utmost ideal in the friendship between women and reveals the author's heartfelt experience in the social hierarchy lodged in the friendship between women . In addition ,this kind of multiple narration highlights Pu Songling's deep motivation and superb narrative techniques.The thesis is dissertated in three parts. As follows:The first part mainly discusses the two aspects of bosom-friend complex in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: the cultural background connotation embodied in the friendship between men ;the friendship sublimed from the love between men and women.The second part discusses the moral ideals that the author reposed in the close relationship between women and seeks out the author's criticise on social inequality implied in the friendship between women by dissertating from the two aspects of recollecting the patriarchy and criticizing the hierarchy.The third part probes the deep connotation of bosom friends in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by studying Pu Songling's life and experience, obtaining his personal standards on "bosom friends".Pu Songling was educated and edified by Confucious gentleman personality all his life ,and was influenced by the thought of being a (?)anger ,which endowed him with the unique views on bosom friends that bestowed profoundly multiple connotations on the bosom friendship in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.