A Comparison Of Female Characters In The Plays Of Cao Yu And Xia Yan

Cao Yu and Xia Yan, one is an outstanding genius playwright as young as 23 years old to write the "Thunderstorm" realism plays, one is a political revolutionaries walking in the theater and film amphibious creation, their creations out of the "Schiller " Mode, the artistic and ideological were well combined. Two playwright with realistic strokes, the thinking of their life, reality and the whole society b a fantastic drama brewing, and has created a no copy batch of characters. Peruse their plays, it’s not hard to find the two playwrights in art processing for portraying female characters fall in love and attention. Cao Yu and Xia Yan, both living under the same context of the times, the time displayed and plays also very close, the shape of women images become more similar. They c criticized and exposed the dark in the old days, and actively seek a way for the new era of women. By the comparison of female images between Cao and Xia plays, help us have a deeper understanding of the differences and the reasons of female view, contribute to a comprehensive grasp of their works in a series of female images macroly, but also to showing a " Bong loss more than not enough " society.This article obtains from the three parts of female images in the Cao, Xia drama. The first chapter is the foundation part, first of all, take an inductive generalization of its creation time, the female images in Cao, Xia ‘s plays, Secondly, A writer to create characters with their family life and upbringing are inextricably linked, therefore, the author analyzed Cao, Xia family culture and personal experience; Thirdly, They will be more or less absorb and learn from some of the classic Western drama and its context and female character in the process creating dramas, at the same time, the cultivation of traditional Chinese opera culture also for their creation has the subtle influence. Therefore, inheritance and innovation for them to age and foreign literature, studying and learning and creativity are essential.The second chapter, Cao, Xia two main female characters in the drama image is divided into four types,labor from insulted and damaged female images, female image of traditional culture, female images which has a strong sense of individuality liberation and the revolutionary female images,they are compared and classified. In female image environment and character, Cao Yu’s northern women more as Fanyi, hot golden flower "Thunderstorm", "wilderness" as the character, dare to love dare to hate, hot and passionate, crazy for love, for freedom. Xia Yan all southern woman such as Yang Caiyu, MeiYi are like a inside collect, delicate, emotion and will be buried in the heart, not in character. Secondly, from the perspective of the social and cultural consciousness of female characters present, Cao, Xia though, two people with a realistic view drama creation, is for the performance of the feudal society of the dark state of existence of hot water from the masses, but two people writing female images are present varies with a certain social and cultural consciousness and their own bias. CaoYu tends to women’s liberation from the theirself. Xia Yan on female image shaping, then look into even more, close to the age of revolution. He described the woman directly into the revolution, the revolution is closely related to survival in the environment. Moreover, on the image of women in terms of aesthetic value, Cao Yu’s play, we see less signs of political interference, enjoymore lifelike female characters.. Their beauty in static appearance, in desperate spirit, has a strong artistic aesthetic value. However,Xia Yan’s women images thought liberation of contemporary politics, showing women for life is full of enthusiasm, positive enterprising spirit, on them in the national in peril time encounter and the journey of life, reflecting the fate of the whole nation and state of mind. The idea of Xia Yan’s value, it is irreplaceable in Chinese dramatic history.The third chapter is about the creation of female image art expression means of comparison, analyzes mainly from three aspects as setting, language structure, situation, comprehensive on the four big famous Cao Yu and Xia Yan all classic drama works. Works of Cao Yu drama is a flexible structures, such as: "Thunderstorm" latching better show Fanyi weeks trapped in this dark vortex mansion, "Sunrise" openly better show the Chen BaiLu ‘s level of social standing in the field, and more abundantly to show her relationship with a variety of characters. Xia yan all drama is given priority to with archive-essay, portrait exhibition type structure, exquisite and simple to create true epic of the female image. Cao Yu, Xia yan all artistic expression means,there are four main differences and limitations: first, the structure of drama, he is flexible and changeable. Xia Yan favours the prose poetry type open structure, its limitations is to female characters reveal too subtle, is not conducive to character shaping, resulting in the insufficient character fullness. Emphasis on the open, to the audience’s quality put forward higher requirements. Secondly, the drama on the choice of materials, Xia Yan all life art changes after selection into the script, his performance is more rich, broad, closer ties with the surrounding cultural environment, less artificial distraction. Cao Yu’s drama to highlight the plot, selective narrow, part of the plot was fabricated. Thirdly, the drama aesthetic tendency, Cao Yu with twists and turns, coincidence, mutation, from the external conflict will firmly seize the audience, revealing the theme. Xia Yan with a simple, plain, and guide the audience move away from the plot to the inner lyricism, make drama aesthetics more introverted. Fourth, in the character of the language, Cao Yu is poetic, philosophical statements. Xia Yan is a simple, popular, but deep flavor sentence.Writers of Cao Yu and Xia Yan all play for the development of Chinese modern drama and has opened up a new stage, is a sign of China’s modern drama into mature. Both of them is detained in parallel in the history of Chinese literature, hand in photograph reflect, jointly promote the prosperity of Chinese opera culture!...