Xue Baochai Essays

The Story of the Stone and The Death of Ivan Ilyich both present rigidly organized social settings. Jia Baoyu struggles against his role as a first son in a society informed primarily by Confucian academia while Ivan Ilyich seeks to better his position in the Tsarist bureaucracy. These characters react very differently to their respective societies but, regardless of their willingness or ability to exist within these social structures, the obligations and expectations put upon them by social convention

the idea of patriarch.In the story, Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu is a natural pair of two affectionate, like Romeo and Juliet. But Jia Baoyu did not marry to Lin Daiyu, because Jia Baoyu was deceived by the elders who secretly arranged his marriage to Xue Baochai. In the end, Lin Daiyu died with the hate. From this scene, we can tell that China's society pays more attention to the filial piety of the young generation in a relationship of love. But Shakespeare's love is the stubborn love without any surrenders