Love and Regret: The Tragic Life of the Female Characters in Jin Yong's The Story of the Flying Fox

Jie Yu

doi:10.54691/m68ekn73

Authors

Jie Yu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/m68ekn73

Keywords:

Female Characters; Tragic Life; Views on Marriage and Love; Defective Personality; Creative Expression.

Abstract

In Jin Yong's novel The Story of the Flying Fox, there are many female characters such as Yuan Ziyi, Cheng Lingsu and Nan Lan, but it is interesting that their lives are expressed as tragedies on the whole. Reading the text carefully, we find that the novel implies various understandings of the tragic life, such as the traditional concept of marriage, the defective personality of the characters, and the emotional transfer of creative expression. Through the tragic life of these female characters, the novel enlightens us that imperfection is the normal state of life, and each of us should accept the imperfect self, the imperfect love and even the imperfection of society and the world. Only in this way can we understand the love in life, let go of the regret in life, and truly appreciate the beauty of life.

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