The Study Of The Image Of A Prostitute In "The Flower Of The Sea"

Flowers in shanghai is one of the most outstanding masterpieces in late Qing Dynasty.The full article takes Zhao Puzhai as the clue,describing him from the countryside to visit his uncle for business and gradually fall addicted to whorehouse,which pulls out short and temporary union between the thirty-eight harlots of different temperaments and the whoremasters and shows the appearance of the prostitutions in the late Qing Dynasty.This paper starts from the background of the novel,the image characteristics and existence state of the prostitutes,the achievements of the image creation and the writing ideas of the writers.It tries to explore the attitudes and concepts of the prostratives' life and emotional life,emotional tendencies and ambivalence of the writer.There are five parts in this paper.The first part is Shanghai Temptress Moon and flowers in shanghai.The development of traditional Wu Yue and modern city pushed prostitute industry in shanghai to the peak in the late Qing Dynasty.Besides,flowers in shanghai has a high literary status and historical and cultural value.The second part is the image characteristics of the prostitutes in shanghai,which are divided into five grades and the image is vivid,abundant and authentic.The third part is the survival state of the prostitutes in Shanghai.They make a living and earn profit by prostituting and they handle the relationship with the pimps,peer prostitutes and whoremasters in their emotional life,which leads to their different emotional ending.The fourth part is the achievement of image-building of prostitutes.Flowers shows a new culture of prostitute image in Shanghai city under the alternate characteristics of the times,showing the true situation of Shanghai prostitutes at that time.Their appearance are beautiful but very evil,which simultaneously reflects local characteristics of Shanghai.The fifth part is the writer's thoughts.The creative motives of the author is to peach people to stay away from Shanghai Temptress Moon and deposited their latter-day literati feelings to the article.He does not only criticize the prostitute's treacherous vulgar,but also the prostitute's misfortune,which shows the contradictions of the people under the traditional culture and modern civilization intertwined...