Body, Desire and Metaphor: A Male Narrative Analysis of Tang Xianzu's The Peony Pavilion: The Dream Interrupted

Xinyuan Xu

doi:10.54097/ijeh.v9i2.9834

Authors

Xinyuan Xu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v9i2.9834

Keywords:

The Peony Pavilion, The Dream Interrupted, Male narration, Body, Desire, Metaphor.

Abstract

The Peony Pavilion: The Dream Interrupted, tells the story of Du Liniang’s visit to the garden in spring and then her dream of meeting intellectual Liu Mengmei, which embodies the awakening of women’s life consciousness. However, by rereading the The Dream Interrupted from three dimensions: body narrative, desire narrative and metaphorical narrative, we can find that Tang Xianzu’s creation still has a gaze and is at the center of male narrative.

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