The Illusion World In The Narration Of The Penoy Pavilion

“The Penoy Pavilion” narrates a romance about Du Liniang,who died for a dream about passion and then bring back to life with the help of Liu Mengmei.In this story,the author creates an illusory world,such as “dream” and“the nether world”.The dream and the soul interwave in the story,and the self-portrait connects the real world and the unreal.In this essay,the author examines the illusory world that is featured in “The Penoy Pavilion”,analyzing the connotation of “Qing” in this story and reviewing the end of story.The thesis is devided into three parts:The first part mainly discusses “the dream world” in this story.Teasing out the evolution and the function of the dream in the literary creation,the author discusses the way how Tang Xianzu controls the illusion in this play.In addition,this parts will also the relationship between "dream" and "love" in "The Peony Pavilion",and how such a space as the dream can temporarily accommodate private passion that is not allowed by reality.The second part mainly analyzes the condition of the ghost world in the play.And Du Liniang who is a gohst behaves some difference compared to when she was a person.Then we can futher discuss the love based on such differences whether can be trusted?At the same time,this difference shows the author’s anxiety about the traditional ethics.A topic about love and life and death in the event of Liniang’s resurgence how to get the interpretation?The third part,based on the self-portrait,analyzes how the object connects the plot,and how it is endowed with the color of imagination.And the eaasy explains how the love between Yin and Yang in the play is connected with the reality step by step.At the same time,this part examines Liu Mengmei’s love which based on the painting.The fantastical plot winds down to a bland ending.Starting from such an ending,how to interpret the illusory love world constructed in “The Peony Pavilion”?...