Adaption And Dissemination Of "A Dream Of Red Mansions"

The volume, variety, and influence of the adaptions of "A Dream of Red Mansions"have become a significant phenomenon in the history of literature and art history whichdeserves our attention. The adaptions of "A Dream of Red Mansions" from the operas,movies, TV shows, musicals, and dramas and other forms of work, is different brands of"A Dream of Red Mansions" in different times, is "A Dream of Red Mansions" art of life.This paper strives to decipher the adaption process through an investigation of theadapted works of "A Dream of Red Mansions". Based on the original text, this paperencapsulates the innovations, leverages, and defects of the adapted works, studies theachievement and deficiencies of adapted works in the hope of benefiting future adaptionsand spread of "A Dream of Red Mansions" through four chapters.The introduction unscrambles operas, movies, TV shows, musicals, and dramasadapted from "A Dream of Red Mansions", recapitulates and analyzes the results offormer studies of adapted works, points out the foibles of the study process-the lack ofcomprehensiveness and thoroughness, and notes the significance of the topic of this paper.Chapter I, The Selections and Alterations of Plots in the Adaptions of "A Dream ofRed Mansions". This chapter divides the adapted works into two categories: the adaptionsof the entire text of "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the adaptions of segments of "ADream of Red Mansions", expatiates the selections and alterations of the original plots inthese two kinds of adaptions respectively, and analyzes the "contrast of falsehood andreality" in adapted works with respect to the "contrast of falsehood and reality" in theplots of "A Dream of Red Mansions", investigates the treatments of the last40chapters ofthe original text in the adaptions of "A Dream of Red Mansions".Chapter II, The Reservations and Changes of Characters in the Adaptions of "ADream of Red Mansions". This chapter classifies the characters in "A Dream of RedMansions" into two categories: main characters and supporting characters, and analyzesthe reservations and changes of these two types of characters in the adaptions of "ADream of Red Mansions". In addition, to explicates the successes and failures of detaileddepictions of characters in the adaptions of "A Dream of Red Mansions"in the respect ofthe detailed depictions of characters in the original text.Chapter Ⅲ, The Interpretations and Usage in the Adaptions of "A Dream of RedMansions" of Poetry and Songs in the Original Text. Some of the poems and songsconceive the personalities of characters, some reveal the destinies of characters, and someconvey the emotions of characters; they are a crucial component unique to "A Dream ofRed Mansions". Therefore, these poems and songs are widely used and reinterpreted inthe adaptions of "A Dream of Red Mansions".The fourth chapter analyzes the vulgarized orientation in the process of the spread of"A Dream of Red Mansions" adaptions, and also points out the defects of these adapted works under commercial operation and mass-consumerism.The conclusion summarizes the content discussed in this paper, and also conceivesand envisions the future adaptions of "A Dream of Red Mansions".