CONTRACT BETWEEN IMPLEMENTATION OF FEUDAL MORAL, MEDICAL, RITES, AND A FATHER'S LOVE FOR HIS DAUGHTER THROUGH THE CHARACTER WANG YUHUI IN RÚ LÍN WÀI SHǏ OF WU JING ZI

Abstract

Wu Jingzi's novel “Rú lín wài shǐ” is one of the best social satires of classical Chinese fiction. In the work, the writer delves deeply into the inner nature of each person to better understand the impact of social circumstances on the formation of character's personality. The author deeply satirizes the academic system, feudal ethics, and bad habits of people in a complicated and chaotic life. Prominent in the work is the image of Wang Yuhui, a character with many contradictions in thought, between the practice of morality, ethics, and feudal rites on the one hand and the father's affection for his daughter. Although she encouraged her daughter to die with her husband to become a paralytic, in the end, Wang Yuhui realized his failure in implementing feudal moral and ethical ideas. In this article, we apply the following methods: systematization, analysis, synthesis, interdisciplinary (culture) to focus on explaining Wang Yuhui's personality to help readers see more clearly the deep contradictions in the mind of the character.