A Comparative Study On Female Concept In Jin Pingmei And A Dream Of Red Mansions

"Jin Ping mei" and "a dream of mansions" are two novels in the Ming and Qing dynasties.With a naturalistic approach,Jin ping mei undisguisedly reproduces every aspect of the life of the middle and lower classes,especially the merchant class,in the Ming dynasty.Through the description of Ximenqing’s wives and concubines,it reflects the traditional view of women in the feudal society of Jin ping mei.Although there are many female images in Jin ping mei which have the unconscious rebellious nature,such as the dependent Pan jinlian.However,due to the backwardness of the author’s view on women,their most brilliant rebellious nature is like a flash in the pan,and they are finally included in the Dead Sea of the decadent view on women in the feudal society.In addition,"Jin Ping mei" also describes the tragic life of Wu yueniang,a traditional representative of female values in feudal society,with admiring strokes.With the stale view of feudal women for Wu yueniang oppression of others and oppression of their own life plating false Buddha light,but also on the view of feudal women inadvertently great irony.However,compared with Jin pingmei,a dream of red mansions,Lin daiyu,an imperfect but thorough rebel of the feudal traditional view of women,is portrayed,and her death is used to announce the complete failure of the transformation of the rebel by the feudal traditional women view to opportunistic,feudal traditional women view stalwarts of heterogeneous,with her life end deserve negative backward feudal women view,further point out that women have do not conform to the historical,social,human development,is bound to be eliminated.