Evaluation of Characters in A Dream of Red Mansions

1, Jia Baoyu is a strange and vulgar figure. His main character is rebellion, his behavior is "remote and perverse", and he is a rebel in ancient society. He despises fame and fortune and is unwilling to take the official career of "learning to be excellent and becoming an official". He hates stereotyped writing, insults the "traitors" who study and are officials, and is too lazy to meet them. He doesn't like the so-called "serious books", but prefers "miscellaneous books", and loves to read The Peony Pavilion and Jia Baoyu's The West Chamber. He also boldly questioned Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, thinking that "there are too many fabrications except the Four Books", which fully shows that he is the "rebellious son and second minister" of absolute monarchy.

He believes that "the beauty of mountains, rivers, the sun and the moon is only for daughters, and men with beards are just scum." Under the guidance of this shocking thought, Baoyu "wandered around at home" all day, loving and pitying girls, loving their beauty, purity, exuberance and intelligence, pitying their unfortunate experiences, and pitying them for marrying smelly men and losing their holy beauty. Jia Baoyu said: "A woman was a pearl before she got married, but after she got married, she lost her light and became a dead pearl. If she is old, she will walk with dirty men and become a dead fish eye. " He even felt irreparable regret for having a man. In his life, the most important thing is undoubtedly his love with Lin Daiyu. This love, on the one hand, began with rebellious character, on the other hand, it promoted the final formation of his rebellious character. This is the biggest and most important treason in his life history. In love, Bao and Dai not only demand marital autonomy, but also deviate from the lifestyle of traditional society. They went further and further on the road of rebellion, which eventually led to their tragic ending.

2. Lin Daiyu is a girl who is poetic and full of books. Its characteristics can be summarized as "sad beauty". "Sadness" is mainly manifested in Lin Daiyu's "bleak life experience, delicate and sickly", while "beauty" is manifested in "extension, connotation and art" The combination of the two forms the tragic image of Lin Daiyu's "sad beauty". Daiyu is actually a crimson pearl fairy.

When I first met Daiyu, the author did not directly describe her beauty, but skillfully used Xifeng's mouth and Baoyu's eyes to highlight her peerless beauty. When Feng, who spoke frankly, saw Daiyu's appearance, she could not help admiring: "There are such handsome people in the world! I just saw it today! " In Baoyu's eyes, "two bends are like frowning, and a pair of drooping eyebrows are like weeping eyes (once said, they seem to be happy but not like eyes). They are in a state of anxiety, suffering from a whole body disease, with little tears in their eyes and a slight gasp. Quiet is like a flower, moving is like a weak willow, and their hearts are more familiar than dry and sick." What a "daughter" and "fairy sister"! At this time, a living "beauty" of Daiyu has jumped from the page, which is Lin Daiyu's "external sadness".

Lin Daiyu is sensitive and kind. On the one hand, her dependence on others makes her always cautious when dealing with people, forming a mentality of "fear of being looked down upon"; On the other hand, the narrow-mindedness of a girl with a heart and wisdom can add something "smart and lovely" to her, thus making the role of Lin Daiyu more vivid, vivid and touching. This is the genius of the author. In most literary works, the author often praises the positive characters too much, which makes the protagonist almost deified, leading to the characterization divorced from real life and becoming empty, boring and silent. In terms of Daiyu's kindness, we can also see it from her words with Baochai. Although they were tired of love and had some friction on weekdays, she later treated Baochai "ten times better than others" and regarded Baochai as her thoughtfulness. Furthermore, we can see the kindness and weakness in her heart from her teaching Xiangling's poems "teaching people tirelessly" and her burying flowers.

3. Xue Baochai, one of the twelve women in Jinling, is the daughter of Aunt Xue. She looks beautiful and refined, and looks like a model of an orthodox lady at that time, but she has a cynical personality factor in her bones. She has a strong critical spirit to the society at that time. The 38th Ode to a Crab sharply satirizes Jia Yucun and other tyrannical officialdom figures. And her favorite lyrics are actually the rebellious color of a rich man against Xue Baochai in loneliness and anger. The traditional view is that Xue Baochai is "extremely shrewd, won the hearts of the people and won the praise of the Jia family", but the author also said it from Aunt Zhao. After Jinchuan's death, she only wrote a few words "just send a few taels of silver", which shows her ruthlessness to the lowly people. However, in the twenty-second novel, her plan failed. Baochai once wrote a poem "The Mystery of Lady Zhu", which caused Jia Zheng's great disappointment: "It is even more ominous for a villain to say such a thing, and no one will live forever." On the 40th trip, when Grandmother Jia visited the Grand View Garden with Granny Liu, the interior furnishings of Baochai Garden were simple, which caused great dissatisfaction of Grandmother Jia, who thought it was a disgrace to her relatives. For Baochai, Grandmother Jia said "Stop it", "Stop it", "Don't be too detached" and "Our old lady is going to live in the stable more and more". -All negative comments. At the "Guo Rongfu Lantern Festival" at that time, the grandmother ordered her beloved four people, Baoqin, Xiangyun, Daiyu and Baoyu, to sit at the main table with her, but only pushed Baochai out of the main table and sat with Wen Li and Li Qi. This was an important sign that Baochai changed from "favored" to "out of favor" in front of the grandmother. If she is really "shrewd and popular", why did she end up like this?

Everyone knows Wang Xifeng's poison. As the "general manager" of Fu Rong, her power to play Wang Xifeng is two-sided. She killed Jia Rui with a poisonous trick and plotted to force Second Sister You to death. She was mean by nature and finally killed the whole family. She has a fiery personality, and I never forget to point this out in my article. Just like on her birthday, it is enough to have a conflict with Bao's daughter-in-law and ask the old lady for help. But after all, she is very capable and smart. She has the final say in all the affairs of Rongfu, and she is good at catering to it, which won the favor of the old lady. Her fundamental purpose is to collect money. Aunt Zhao once said, "I'm not human unless this half of my property tells her to move to her parents' house." "A Dream of Red Mansions" once said that Wang Xifeng's appearance: "Colorful embroidery is brilliant, just like a fairy princess: wearing a bun embroidered with golden silk and eight treasures of beads, embroidering a hairpin with five phoenix beads in the morning, a red gold plate on her neck, a bean green palace sash on her skirt, a pair of balanced roses, wearing a narrow coat of Kingdee and red satin, and a colorful carving on her outer cover."