Tension and Flow: an Analysis on the Emotional Structure of The Peony Pavilion

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10.2991/icadce-18.2018.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Peony Pavilion; emotional structure; benevolence of living; true feelings

Abstract

Influenced by the conditions of developed commodities economy and Yang Ming philosophy of mind, there emerged a new wave of social thoughts focusing on secularism and affirming human desire in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Tang Xianzu, who has fully absorbed the essence of this emerging social thought trend, has involved it into the legendary The Peony Pavilion in a creative way. This work, which affirms the desires of the secular people, has stroked the dominant social concept with the core of Cheng Zhu’s Neo-Confucianism in a very clear-cut manner. In the works, this sharp contradiction is deeply expanded. The emotional tensions reflected in the development and evolution of it is in line with Raymond Williams' description of the “emotional structure” theory. Therefore, this paper uses Raymond Williams' emotional structure theory as a perspective to comb and analyze the emotional structure embodied in The Peony Pavilion.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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