The consummate literati novel, written by an accomplished artist for a well-educated readership, it is filled with allusions and parodies and features a dream-sequence narrative that is innovative and sophisticated even by modern standards.
Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to India in search of Buddhist scriptures to carry back to China, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective. Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. In addition, from the perspective of the social significance of the novel, this paper discusses the social factors of the emergence of female images in the novel and the social reality it reflects. On the one hand, based on the text of the novel, the female images involved in the novel are explored and the characteristics of the female images are analyzed and studied On the other hand, from the perspective of creation, the significance and means of portraying such images are interpreted and the deep connotation of female images is expounded, so as to have a more three-dimensional interpretation on female images in the work. In view of the secular female image in Journey to the West, the author mainly studies it from the following aspects. Their appearance adds color to the narrative of the novel and is an indispensable part of the plot of the novel. But it is undeniable that in the process of pilgrimage, in the ups and downs of the novel plot, in portraying the characters, in this novel with male image as the main narrative carrier, a large number of female images spring onto the paper vividly, leaving a deep impression on the readers.
Journey to the West, as a famous supernatural novel in ancient China, has created a series of popular characters, especially the image of the group in pilgrimage.
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