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'A Journey to the West' is a critical part of Chinese literature, with centuries of Chinese folklore and fables intertwined with the story. It illustrates the world's beauty with a descriptive and captivating way of picturing the world and the powers that constantly enthrall it. Chapter one of 'A Journey to the West' details the beginnings of this story, illustrates future storytelling, and introduces characters and concepts that would be described later in the text. However, Chapter One represents a hopeful ending of what is to come and illustrates connections with literature concepts and other historical texts. One of these concepts illustrated would be a biblical allusion, such as the description of the universe's 129,600-year cycle and …show more content…

'Journey to the West' was written during the Ming dynasty in China, which was progressively getting weaker, and it can be depicted that this text invokes the call for a new ruler of China. In 'Journey to the West,' it is stated how, after Sun Wukong gave a place to his fellow monkey compatriots, "They lined up in groups in order of age and paid their homage as at court, all acclaiming him as the "Great King of a Thousand Years." (Wu, 2005, p. 10). This allusion infers to a time of a weakened Ming dynasty in China when people called for a new ruler, which is when "In 1644, the Manchus… conquered the crumbling Ming state and established their own Qing (or Pure) dynasty" (Hearn, 2003, para. 1). Also, from this text, there are examples of more biblical allusions one in specific would be the connections of the monkeys' paradise island and the Garden of Eden. It can be deduced from both that these natural environments provide for the animals within them seen when Sun Wukong states, "they picked flowers for food and drink, they lived off fruit… they gathered tares and chestnuts, They got through the winter on Solomon's-seal." (Wu, 2005, p. 10). Also, vernacularization was used to be more socially relatable for the time it was written and sounded more genuine to how the people of this time

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