The Research Of Famine Revenge Models In Strange Tales Of Liaozhai

Revenge is an eternal topic in the process of human history, and it is also a significanttheme in the history of world literature. In the traditional ethics, revenge is a legitimateaction of justice. National animosity, family hatred, wife grabbing, patricide, treachery andother kinds of animosity and revenge stories occur throughout the process of literary history.Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio, a collection of supernatural short stories, also describeslots of revenge, and the female revenge is an important part in it.On the basis of female revenge in the Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio, this paperexplores the mode of the topic about female revenge. To begin with, it analyzes the threefemale figures: Shang Sanguan, Mrs. Dou and Mrs. Zhang. And it sorts out three differentkinds of female revenge: the revenge between human to non-human, human’s revenge tonon-human, and non-human’s revenge to human.Then, it classifies revenge women in this book from the following perspectives:revenge motivation, identity background and revenge method. It tries to expound womenrevenge from multiple aspects, then it find that these female avengers possesscharacteristics such as the rightness of revenge, the inevitability of revenge and theweakness of leading avenger.And this thesis traces the prototypes of three main female avengers: these whorevenge for their fathers, deserted wife’s revenge, and the mothers who kill their own sons.And it compares the figures of Shang Sanguan, Mrs. Dou and Mrs. Zhang in Strange Talesof a Lonely Studio with Xie Xiao’e, Huo Xiaoyu, Han Zhu’er in predecessors’ literaryworks to discuss the Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio’s inheritance and development frompredecessors’ works. Moreover, it analyzes its influence on the contemporary literature bythe analysis of female revenge works that are created in the contemporary literature.