The Study On Funtional Characters In The Yuan Poetic Drama

The article mainly researches on the functional characters in the yuan poetic drama by the a ngle of narratology,especially its role plays in the narratology.The first part discusses the meaning and kinds of the functional characters.The functional c haracters means someone is minor and arises for narration.Their individualities are not the write rs and customers focused on.The figures are fuzzy and inflexib.Therefore they never be considered to the integrated person but just some functional factors in the yuan poetic drama.They are clasified by three kinds:the funtional nobodies,the functional gods and the functional government officals according to their indenties and functions.The second part discusses the same functions in the narration of the functional characters,mainly including narrating plots and driving devloping.Because the features of all kinds of characters are different,their functions also little differently.By narrating plots,the functiona nobodies make the billows constantly,which makes the polts ups and downs.The functional gods usually appears when plots “without resort”,which make the story resurrected.The funtional goverment officals always appears in the final part,which make the poetic drama end quikly and set the tune with one beat of gone.The third to fifth parts discuss the special functions of every functional characters.Firstly,the third part talk the functional nobodies,which reflected in three aspects.The first one is structuring plots.On the one hand they cluster leader actors,which make the person irrelevant contact together by accident and rise contradictions among them,it takes the Autumn in Palace for instance;on the other hand,in some stories having double or more clues,functional characters usually play a role of clustering these clues,which obtain well organized and clear veins,it takes the Children Reunion for instance.The second one is making impromptu comic gestures and remarks.The deliberately funny plots are common in the Poetic Drama,which achieves by nobodies usually.The waiters are representatives,they make customers laugh by self-mockery or self-contradictory utterrance or dialogue with somebody else.These functional characterscommonly are acted by the painted face or clown,which because their origin is Join the Army DramaThe third one is serving as a foil to leading actors.Take an example of Autumn in Palace.In this drama,Mao Yanshou is serving as a foil to Wang Zhaojun,his bad faith and greed serving as a foile to Wang's high-hearted and exclusive.All behaviors centre on Wang,make Wang's image become more and more plump in different scene and context and become a person who has ture to life and righteous and love.The fourth part discusses the function of funtional gods,which contain.The first one is enducating hasbandman.Writers get rid of the stale and bring forth the fresh,making use of people's faith in gods to propagate standers of filial piety,loyalism and good and evil being rewarded.The second one is improving taste.Writers usually make use of gods in order to create a sense of strangeness,enhance the sense of surprise and impove the aesthetics appreciation of the audiences.On one hand,introducing spiritual factors usually make the polts beyond all expectations,achieve th effect for the plots.It mainly arise in historical drama.On the other hand,for the living arts in the stage,writers should also consider its real performance effect and customers' aesthetic effect.The fifth part discuss the functions of functional government officials.It include two parts.The first one is resolving contradictions.They realize the fun of reunion through conciliating conflicts between gifted scholars and beautiful ladies and feudal parents,businessmen,bullies and parties.The scecond two is increasing implications.On one hand,functional officials' views on love and their attitude towards scholars reflet official standard thought;one the other hand,functional officials reflect the writers are hesitant between ancient and new culture,embodying their imcomplete resistance to feudal ethics.