A Comparative Analysis of the Image of Ah Q and Falstaff in the Cultural Perspective

Luxin Wei

doi:10.54691/bcpssh.v16i.502

Authors

Luxin Wei

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpssh.v16i.502

Keywords:

Culture; Social Reality; Cultural Reflection.

Abstract

In the connotation of the characters of Ah Q and Falstaff, both of them show a comedic and laughter-inducing quality, and trigger the aesthetic pleasure of readers' contemptuous ridicule of "ugliness", but there are still significant differences in their comic expressions, which are closely related to the authors' own cultural sphere and the social reality in which they live. Therefore, this paper tries to compare the differences between Ah Q and Falstaff's characters in the cultural context, arguing that the two characters present the colors of joy in sorrow and sorrow in joy, and then return to the cultural reflection of the two authors and the discussion of the need to reconstruct the cultural psychology of society from anthropological ontology.

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