Women are an indispensable element when it comes to writing literature. Many writers have tried to create perfect female characters which reflect both their aesthetic ideals and their attitudes toward women. This thesis aims at comparing two writers and their works, Chinese writer Pu Songling and Am...
Women are an indispensable element when it comes to writing literature. Many writers have tried to create perfect female characters which reflect both their aesthetic ideals and their attitudes toward women. This thesis aims at comparing two writers and their works, Chinese writer Pu Songling and American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who both preferred to create beautiful female characters. Pu Songling was one of the most influential Chinese writers of the 17th century. His magnum opus, Liaozhai Zhiyi, is revered as a masterful short story for its concise writing style and creativity. Poe is a famous 19th century American poet and novelist who maintains a prominent position in American literature and is regarded as the father of the detective novel genre.
This dissertation is a comparative study between the female images as presented in the supernatural stories of Pu and the horror stories of Poe. The two are comparable by virtue of the fact that even though these authors lived in different times and regions, they both showed interest in writing about beautiful women and their love lives. The purpose of this thesis is to discover the connections between the two authors' works and to investigate the root cause of the formation of two authors' views on women in their work. With that propose, this thesis attempts to take, primarily, three supernatural stories of Pu, "A Bao" (阿宝), "The Magic Sword" (聂小倩) and "Ying Ning" (婴宁) and compares them to three of Poe's works, "The Oval Portray", "Berenice" and "Ligeia".
This thesis argues that the spiritual elements as depicted by the female characters in these stories reflect the writers' imaginations and understanding of different aspects of women. Besides the traditional virtues such as women's tolerance and beauty, the writers also recognize the wisdom and extraordinary will of women. However, in the context of a patriarchal culture, these female characters always appear as passive and exist as the "the other" in the stories.
Women are an indispensable element when it comes to writing literature. Many writers have tried to create perfect female characters which reflect both their aesthetic ideals and their attitudes toward women. This thesis aims at comparing two writers and their works, Chinese writer Pu Songling and American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who both preferred to create beautiful female characters. Pu Songling was one of the most influential Chinese writers of the 17th century. His magnum opus, Liaozhai Zhiyi, is revered as a masterful short story for its concise writing style and creativity. Poe is a famous 19th century American poet and novelist who maintains a prominent position in American literature and is regarded as the father of the detective novel genre.
This dissertation is a comparative study between the female images as presented in the supernatural stories of Pu and the horror stories of Poe. The two are comparable by virtue of the fact that even though these authors lived in different times and regions, they both showed interest in writing about beautiful women and their love lives. The purpose of this thesis is to discover the connections between the two authors' works and to investigate the root cause of the formation of two authors' views on women in their work. With that propose, this thesis attempts to take, primarily, three supernatural stories of Pu, "A Bao" (阿宝), "The Magic Sword" (聂小倩) and "Ying Ning" (婴宁) and compares them to three of Poe's works, "The Oval Portray", "Berenice" and "Ligeia".
This thesis argues that the spiritual elements as depicted by the female characters in these stories reflect the writers' imaginations and understanding of different aspects of women. Besides the traditional virtues such as women's tolerance and beauty, the writers also recognize the wisdom and extraordinary will of women. However, in the context of a patriarchal culture, these female characters always appear as passive and exist as the "the other" in the stories.
Women are an indispensable element when it comes to writing literature. Many writers have tried to create perfect female characters which reflect both their aesthetic ideals and their attitudes toward women. This thesis aims at comparing two writers and their works, Chinese writer Pu Songling and American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who both preferred to create beautiful female characters. Pu Songling was one of the most influential Chinese writers of the 17th century. His magnum opus, Liaozhai Zhiyi, is revered as a masterful short story for its concise writing style and creativity. Poe is a famous 19th century American poet and novelist who maintains a prominent position in American literature and is regarded as the father of the detective novel genre.
This dissertation is a comparative study between the female images as presented in the supernatural stories of Pu and the horror stories of Poe. The two are comparable by virtue of the fact that even though these authors lived in different times and regions, they both showed interest in writing about beautiful women and their love lives. The purpose of this thesis is to discover the connections between the two authors' works and to investigate the root cause of the formation of two authors' views on women in their work. With that propose, this thesis attempts to take, primarily, three supernatural stories of Pu, "A Bao" (阿宝), "The Magic Sword" (聂小倩) and "Ying Ning" (婴宁) and compares them to three of Poe's works, "The Oval Portray", "Berenice" and "Ligeia".
This thesis argues that the spiritual elements as depicted by the female characters in these stories reflect the writers' imaginations and understanding of different aspects of women. Besides the traditional virtues such as women's tolerance and beauty, the writers also recognize the wisdom and extraordinary will of women. However, in the context of a patriarchal culture, these female characters always appear as passive and exist as the "the other" in the stories.
Women are an indispensable element when it comes to writing literature. Many writers have tried to create perfect female characters which reflect both their aesthetic ideals and their attitudes toward women. This thesis aims at comparing two writers and their works, Chinese writer Pu Songling and American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who both preferred to create beautiful female characters. Pu Songling was one of the most influential Chinese writers of the 17th century. His magnum opus, Liaozhai Zhiyi, is revered as a masterful short story for its concise writing style and creativity. Poe is a famous 19th century American poet and novelist who maintains a prominent position in American literature and is regarded as the father of the detective novel genre.
This dissertation is a comparative study between the female images as presented in the supernatural stories of Pu and the horror stories of Poe. The two are comparable by virtue of the fact that even though these authors lived in different times and regions, they both showed interest in writing about beautiful women and their love lives. The purpose of this thesis is to discover the connections between the two authors' works and to investigate the root cause of the formation of two authors' views on women in their work. With that propose, this thesis attempts to take, primarily, three supernatural stories of Pu, "A Bao" (阿宝), "The Magic Sword" (聂小倩) and "Ying Ning" (婴宁) and compares them to three of Poe's works, "The Oval Portray", "Berenice" and "Ligeia".
This thesis argues that the spiritual elements as depicted by the female characters in these stories reflect the writers' imaginations and understanding of different aspects of women. Besides the traditional virtues such as women's tolerance and beauty, the writers also recognize the wisdom and extraordinary will of women. However, in the context of a patriarchal culture, these female characters always appear as passive and exist as the "the other" in the stories.
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