Seduction and Politics, Fight and Flight
Seduction and Politics, Fight and Flight
This chapter deals with the allegorical nature of the piece, the xia nü's plight as a political refugee, and the sealing of her predestined union with the male scholar hero. It picks up on the scene of Yang Huizhen's seduction of Gu Shengzhai which takes place under moonlight in a water pavilion, part of the grounds of the “haunted” general's mansion. Meanwhile, what Hu does in the battle of the bamboo forest is to give a preview of the fantastic-marvelous. But clearly, the fantastic powers of Yang are still limited to vaulting and caroming from the trunk of the tree in simulation of flight.
Keywords: allegory, scholar hero, haunted, Gu Shengzhai, Yang Huizhen, xia nü
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