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The Female Tragedy in the TV Version "Empresses in the Palace"
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Abstract
The television drama 'Empresses in the Palace', which is adapted from the novel of the same name, has been popular since it was broadcast in 2012 and is the peak of the television drama about the struggle in ancient China's harem. Therefore, this essay makes a deep study of the tragedy embodied in this TV drama based on the text analysis. Starting with the main character Zhen Huan, this essay analyzes the story of the process that Zhen Huan gradually loses her friendship, love and kinship, and the tragedy caused by the failure of the struggle from a female perspective, after that, analyzing the imbalanced value caused by the differences in political and emotional power between 'Zhen Huan' and the Emperor and the feudal ideology led to a tragic impact on women from a social perspective. As a result, through research and analysis, this essay has a deeper understanding of the tragic literature characteristics that the tragedy in this TV drama mainly comes from the character defects, the differences in power and status, and the oppression of feudal ideology. Feeling the reasons for the hatred and things women need or lose is helpful to avoid being assimilated by the distorted values of struggle.
Keywords
television drama 'Empresses in the Palace', 'Zhen Huan', analysis of tragedy
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Psychology and Humanity Studies
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-005-9
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-006-6
- Published Date
- 14 September 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/6/20230123
- Copyright
- 14 September 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited