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The “Journey to the West” written by Wu Cheng-en in Ming dynasty is a popular demon novels. It’s said that the monk riding a horse led the three disciples to get over the maintains, facing lots of huge challenges, finally arriving in the west to get the scriptures in the story. What’s more, the main characters of the novel:Tang-Monk, Sun Wukong, Pig, Sha Wujing and the white horse a dragon turned into are kept in mind deepley by everyone in folk. Above all, Wu described them vividly, imagining them distinctively, creating them extraordinarily.
Tang-Monk in the”Journey to the West”, who is oringinally the mainest character gives the top place to Sun-Wukong, becoming a supporting role in the book. In history, Tong-Monk provides a basic image of San-Zo Master in literature, making the prototype transformed in the evolution of the whole story. However, in the “Jonreny to the West”, the images between Tang-Monk and Xuan-Zang Master are so different. The author can’t help but curious about the spread fo the story, and wonders how the image of the monk character changes of all time. To sum up, this paper mainly discusses the image of Tang-Monk in the “Journey to the West”, trying to investigate from “Datong San-Zo Learns from the Poems”, “Drama of Joruney to the West”, to “Journey to the West”, and compares the differences of the monk between the three books. | en_US |