Three oaths is a plot designed by Guan Hanqing, a playwright in Yuan Dynasty, in his masterpiece Dou Eyuan. Dou E, the heroine, made three vows before the execution: blood flying in vain, snow falling in June and drought for three years. She wants to prove her innocence to heaven, and she wants to send a strong warning to the world through unusual things.
Guan Hanqing hopes that through this earth-shattering description, the world's conscience will be awakened, the world's indignation at the unjust world will be aroused, and the world will strive for a fair and reasonable society.
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Creative background:
The story of "feeling the sin of heaven and earth" originated from "Donghai filial wife" in Biography of Lienv. ?
In the Yuan Dynasty, some Mongolian ministers colluded with local officials to take bribes and pervert the law in order to meet the extravagant life and military needs of Mongolian nobles. Under the cruel class oppression and national oppression, the working people of all ethnic groups live a miserable life, especially the discriminated Han people and southerners, and there are countless unjust cases.
Guan Hanqing is one of some literati with a sense of justice who are dissatisfied with the dark rule of the government and expose the evil of officialdom and social injustice in the form of zaju. He wrote what he saw and heard and the tragic experience of the people into his play "Earthshaking Sin and Injustice".
Appreciate:
With rich imagination and bold exaggeration, the work designs the surreal plot of three vows, and uses romanticism to show the powerful force of the just struggle, which places the author's distinct love and hate and embodies the people's justice.
The desire to punish evil also reflects the darkness of society. This is the most effort to portray the hero image in the whole drama, and it is a concentrated expression of the artistry of the work, which makes the tragic atmosphere more intense, the characters more prominent, the story more vivid and the theme more profound. Full of rich flavor of life and strange romance, with shocking artistic power.