The "A dream of Red Mansions tragedy" revealed in legend——The influence of the tragic consciousness of A Dream of Red Mansions on Eileen Chang

Abstract

A Dream of Red Mansions is a milestone in the history of Chinese tragedy art and has had a profound influence on subsequent writers, including Eileen Chang. Eileen Chang’s love for A Dream of Red Mansions is closely connected with her childhood experiences. Although separated by time and space, the similarities between the two people’s works are extremely precious. This article starts with Eileen Chang’s work Legend, experiences the tragic beauty in different tragedies, and through a comparative analysis of the tragic descriptions in Legend and A Dream of Red Mansions, experiences the influence of A Dream of Red Mansions on Eileen Chang’s creation. Based on Schopenhauer’s tragedy theory, this paper explores the inevitability and popular characteristics of tragedy in the two works, and analyzes the similarities in the description of female tragedies under the oppression of feudal ethics.