On The Dream Of The Middle - Aged And Old Maids World

The novel "R" has been studied for a hundred years However,the researches of the middle-aged and old-aged maidservants have seldom been done.Even in the essays about the servants as a whole,the scholars usually focus on the perspectives of class struggle or the emacipation of human nature.As a result,the understanding of the images of the maidseivants is always incomprehensive,which leads to the distortion of these images.On the perspective of the traditional culure,this essay rethinks the relationship between the masters and the servants,and aims to bring the images of the servants into Cao Xueqin's total artistic conception,so that the internal implication of these images can be manifested.The essay firstly expounds the composing and the function of the middle-aged and old-aged maidservants and summarizes that the relationship between them and their masters reflets the Oriental ethical criterion,so the novel can not be analyzed by the theories of class struggle or emacipation of human nature.The essay then turns the attention to the analysis of the images of three major types of the middle-aged and old-aged maidsetvants and gets the conclusion that the author of the novel uses these images to show the extermination and the familial contridictions of the Jia Family and to expose the tragedy of the self-abasem ent and the injury to each other of the servants.In the end,the essay narrates the description of the middle-aged and old-aged maidservants and the reflection of the relationship between the masters and their servants in the novel this indicates that the author Cao Xueqin brings these middle-aged and old-aged maidservants into his overall artistic conception and deepens the tragic theme of the novel.This is the Reason why Cao Xueqin describes these middle-aged and old-aged maidservants.