On the Female Images in Feng Menglong's "Three Volumes of Stories"

Journal: Journal of Higher Education Research DOI: 10.32629/jher.v2i5.482

Xiaoyue Lai

Southwest University Press Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400715, China

Abstract

Feng Menglong’s "Three Volumes of Stories" involves many female images. "Being bought and sold at arbitrarily" was the common destiny of women in that period; "cheating for love" was a new love choice made by women under the influence of the Enlightenment in the late Ming Dynasty; "getting married" can be said to be the resistance of women who were forced to fall in the past dynasties to their fate.

Keywords

Feng Menglong, Three Volumes of Stories, women

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