西游记 英文简介

Journey to the west is a historic Chine novel that is considered one of

the four classics from the Ming Dynasty. The novels along with the

golden lotus water margins as well as the romances of the three kingdoms

have won popular acclaim from generation to generation. Journey to the

west is a combination of myth parable and comedy. It is a story about a

Buddhist monk and bunch of animals with human characteristic. The

animals actually in the story are a very fairy tale type of mood and they

traveled west to India to find Buddhist scriptures. The animals themlves

are celestial being in mortal forms and they have magical powers that

protect them from the goblins and the evil spirits.

Author Wu Cheng-en writings create an imaginary worl春节手抄报内容 d that creates a

life like with the absurd giving us a glance of the different sides of human

nature.

Monkey was created out of a rock. He not only has the sharp wit and an

unruly nature of a monkey but also extra ordinary powers that he us to

overcome demons and monsters. Pig ts off his pig like clumsiness with

the disposition t感动在我身边 hat is the epitome of honesty and directness. He is always

making a mess out of things and generating a lot of humor in the process.

Before the monk can find the scriptures he must surmounts 81 obstacles

including overcoming such supernatural beings as cow demon the spider

beast and a living skeleton. The obstacles symbolize the difficulties and

challenges that people meet in the cour of ideals.

The character is the main reason that journey to the west keeps reader in

thrall. The book gets more then and uproars comedy. It gives us readers

an unforgivable insight into life itlf.

As for the historical record of journey to the west let's go back to the

Tang dynasty. History actually recalls the Buddhist monk master

Shan-chang or master Xuan Zhuang who crosd he mighty dert to

reach the India continent during the Tang dynasty. 19 years later he came

back to china with over 600 Buddhist scriptures. So the factual basis of

journey to the west was born. However master Xuan Zhuang actually was

a little bit different from master san tong. Who was actually a fictional

character created by the author?

In a novel, Tang Shan-chang maybe a monk 党员承诺践诺 on a daring mission to find

Buddha scriptures. But he is also a faint-hearted hypocrite who lacks

transcendent insight and lives life in pectoral fear. He is kind and

compassionate but his inability to distinguish between true and fal hood

make him all to susceptible to pig's effort to w this court. The result is

that he wrongly distress monkey who can e through the bio schemes

of evil spirits and demons. But of cour when he has fallow blindly in

the trap of钢铁是怎样炼成的好句赏析 some fin or other it is always monkey that fall back on for

help.

Actually the character of the monk happens to be quite similar to the

mythical scholar although he is an idealist at heart he is as weak as a

kitten and just ts there helplessly for rescue when he gets into a 消化不良小妙招

predicament.

The author is perhaps making a sly jab at the incompetent rulers of his

time. But if Tang Shan-chan陆军少校 g is evaluated purely from his viewpoint of

religion or spiritual attainment he appears as not a saintly monk but rather

an ordinary man. So monkey is the real hero in journey to the west.

Monkey is created from a rock on enchanted mountain and becau of his

courage and insight is later anointed by his peers as king. But one day in a

flash of enlightenment, this glorious monkey king e that life is a very

temporary thing and that the delights of his timely existence in the area

mountain tree cannot go on forever. Amazingly he gives it all up to find a

master who can guide him on to the path of spiritual motivation.

Monkey is gifted with intelligence and agility both mentally and

physically. So he puts his talents to u by mastering his skills of

wizardry to the point of where he can transform himlf 72 times in a

blink of an eye. He has a magic wan that can shrink smaller the pen or

expand till it is like a club of bronze and a magic cloud that can take him

up to the heavens or down to the bales of the earth.

The monkey still retains his mischievous and playful temperament of his

fellow apes. His intelligence and child like naughtiness are reviled when

he does things like deliberately nding pig to scan the near by mountain

and then transforming himlf into an inct to keep an eye on his

indolent companion.

Fearing nothing the monkey would play in the palace of the a god in

heaven or in Hades itlf. He even makes a bet with Buddha. His is a

rebellious character that will just not bow to established rules.

Full of life and filled with spirit as well as being sincere and optimistic in

nature, he is not bothered by suffering and is always ready to face up to

new challenges. This kind of wiliness to forge ahead maybe the stuff

tho heroes are made out of. But it carries with it a weakness of

arrogance impulsiveness and a desire to excel over others.

Pig fills a role that symbolizes the desire to comfort and pleasure. He to

has magical powers but it is just not the same as monkey. Who makes

him em naive and clumsy by comparison monkey just love to tea him

so pig does his level best to be a thorn in monkeys side by telling lies

about him to tong song jon.

Pig is a lazy gluttonous that needs his material comforts when it comes to

trouble he just can't hold his side up so is always first to call on for help.

During their journey he nearly cast his companion in his own spiritual

cultivation inside. When he falls for enticement of beautiful women and

riches. But if finally turns out to be all work of Buddha salvia that has

come to test him. Yet thanks to the author pig ludicrous behavior brings

an ironic smile to the readers face rather then a frown of disapproval

becau while pig makes a laughing stock of him lf-the reader is

reminded of the covetous raspy nature that empathy the human condition.

Another character that appears quite less frequently is friar san when he

does take th孔胜东 e stage. His quite resolute and down to nature are readily

apparent.

Actually In journey of the west is purification of the mind so that the

entire expedition to find Buddha scriptures is actually a way of achieving

spiritual goodness. So in this play three arrogant weakness laziness even

ignorance they are all weakness of human nature that requires spiritual

correction. However honesty goodness and courage are all our friends in

the depths of our soul. And this way the journey to the west the various

characters in battle with evil and they teach us that in human life it is

possible and temper ourlves to achieve ideals and goodness.