A Study On The Minor Characters In Feng Menglong 's Three Words

Feng Menglong’s “San Yan” is an excellent representative of popularnovels of Ming dynasty, its emergence marks the high point of the vernacularnovels in ancient China. It also caused great enthusiasm of the academicresearchers since it appeared. The study of "San Yan" has been fruitful, theycovers the themes, characters,artistic value, novel techniques and otheraspects. But throughout the academic research situation of "San Yan", theauthor found that there is only a little about the study of minor characters in theworks. While there are all kinds of characters involved in the research of "SanYan", but they are always scattered,and more with the main characters of thenovel as a research focus, It is an important omission to the "San Yan"research for the rich perspectives. In view of this, the author tries to explorethe value of minor characters in "San Yan"through the study of this subject, soas to inject new vitality to the study of the "San Yan".This thesis mainly divided into the following five parts:"Introduction": In this part mainly introduce the topic research status,research and innovation points and difficult points of "San Yan" minorcharacters.From the large aspects,It mainly related to ancient stories anddefects in individual minor characters in the novel the scattered research;From the side, minor characters research related to the "San Yan"has not yetformed systematically, scattered in only a few characters in the monograph.Therefore, combing the minor characters of “San Yan" is very necessary.The first chapter:Definition of "minor characters", There are a largenumber of minor characters in "San Yan", it is difficult to analysis them one byone. So we need to determine the main objects of the study which have themost research value and most representative as the focus. The firstsection,compared two similar concepts:the "main character" and "hero";Thesecond section, determine the concept of minor characters on the basis of theconcept of "main character";The third section,defined the minor charactersin"San Yan" further,which is the main research object of this article, namelythose most closely related with the "main character", and very important in theplot development and character structure system, for itself also has a uniquepersonality and important value.The second chapter: List the major examples of minor characters in "SanYan". Mainly class the characters on the basis of the personality of thecharacter whether or not in line with the universal moral standards and itsrelationship with novel themes of good and evil tendencies.The first sectionintroduces the positive image of the minor characters, mainly divides into sixclasses as intelligent virtuous women, officials in favor of the leader, the ritual, faithful servant, kindness enlightened parents and the fairy who obliterate theevil and help the kind people;The second section introduces the negativeimage of the minor characters, mainly divides into seven classes as the manof lewdness, the wicked women, the matchmaker that wandering all around,the fierce robbers,the fatuous invincible parents and the mysterious ghost; Thethird section introduces the neutral image of minor characters, namely thosewho do not have obvious positive and negative bias. This chapter through theanalysis of a large number of secondary characters vivid, in order to minorcharacters have a specific and visual cognition, as well as after a furtheranalysis of the text.The third chapter: the artistic function of the minor characters in "SanYan", In this chapter the article made a detailed introduction of minorcharacters’ narrative function in "San Yan":the minor characters andcharacters relations, the minor characters and the plot generated, the minorcharacters and story narrative environment, the minor characters and novelthemes, the minor characters and the story structure, the minor characters andthe language style novel.The fourth chapter:the special value of the minor characters in thevernacular short stories,based on the study of the "San Yan" minor characters,compare the differences of minor characters between the "San Yan" and innovels such as "the Story of the Stone","Water Margin","the Romance of thethree kingdoms","Jin Ping Mei" and so on,to further discusses the particularityof the minor characters in the vernacular short stories from four aspects:in inkdistribution, correlation characters, structure formation and theme reflects.In a word,a lot of minor characters in "San Yan" contains the far-reachingresearch value, through the Analysis and summary of the minor characters in"San Yan" all-round way, not only can make a melody back in those minorcharacters not concerned ever, and it not only can help supply the researchon "San Yan" characters, but also be helpful to "San Yan" research work in thefuture.