Arts Studies and Criticism

Madam Du Sinks Her Treasure Chest in Anger and Medea are typical tragic works with women as the main creation subject in the history of Chinese and Western drama, both of which take the tragic experience of women in the patriarchal society as the theme. Due to the different cultural context and values of the author, there are similarities and differences between the subjects of the tragedy in displaying the female self-consciousness. This paper compares the differences in female self-consciousness between Du Shiniang and Medea, explores the cultural reasons behind their behavior, and finds the cultural differences between China and the West. Through the cross-cultural analysis of the self-consciousness of the two tragic women, not only has certain enlightenment to the development of the self-consciousness of modern Chinese and Western women, but also can better understand the connotation of Chinese and Western tragedy from the cultural perspective, and finally promote the dialogue and exchange of Chinese and Western drama art and culture.