A Analysis On The View Of Righteousness And Benefit Of The Typical Characters In A Dream Of Red Mansions Under The Perspective Of Economics

All the social activities of human and economic interests have direct or indirect relationship. So people's behavior choice is product of certain thought of righteousness and benefit. The essence of human is the sum of all kinds of social relations, which determines that everyone should care about others feelings and considers that what they do may makes differences on others mental and physical parts. Facing choice of benefits, people consider of others, which is upright character and a quality of putting others before myself, while getting a promotion of mental state; Or just focus on own interests, while addicted in satisfy of the material desire. This is the watershed of "righteousness" and "benefit". The essence of thought of righteousness and benefit is what people put in the first place, selfishness or contribution, while dealing with issues in the society. Chinese traditional mainstream thought of righteousness and benefit is righteousness first, which advocated by Confucius, valuing righteousness over benefits. "A dream of red mansions",a monumental work, reflects the real economic life.Through the description a variety of characters in the novel, author displayed the prosperity and the decline of a feudal family from generation to generation. Actually, the rise and fall of the family in the novel mirrored the rise and fall of China's feudal dynasty, especially through the description of the feudal family daily economic life which profoundly reveals the economic reasons of the decline of the last feudal dynasty. In this sense, we can open up a new theory, aesthetic angle and field for the interpretation of a dream of red mansions by analyzing thought of righteousness and benefit which dominated characters behaviors.From the political, cultural and economic basis, the paper analyzes the development history of three different thoughts of righteousness andbenefit, righteousness first, benefit first and important both of them in the traditional culture under the perspective of economics theory. Then starting from the text, author analyzes typical characters who have their different thought of righteousness and benefit and their different destiny and life endings which are meant to be. in a dream of red mansions.By discussion of thought of righteousness and benefit different characters have in a dream of red mansions, the author proposes to reflect social life by fictional way and and discuss the close connections between literature and economy under the perspective of economics. Literature and economy are inseparable. If literature is a reflection of life, so the economic life is the object that literature supposes to be reflected. That is to say, analysis of economic life in the literature is meaningful. The correspondency of economy and literature lies in that both of them are closely related to the desire and the value and significance of life. The desire of characters in literature helps to bring about different plots and creation and evolution of literary style.The formation of literary classics must be established on that the works reflect a certain social and economic life. Studying literary classics from the perspective of economy is helpful to discover economic factors which hide the deepest level of literature. As a novel narrative impetus, Material economic desire(wealth) is the important reason for structuralism literary. Meanwhile, it is a great way to understand the literary classics.