Injustice to Tou O by Kuan Han-ch’ing

darkness to Tou O by Kuan Han-ching explores and bounces grammatical gender roles and family set existed in yuan society. The play presents the gender roles by including the philosophic system on expectations on wo men, illustrating a male-dominated society and disclosing sociable discrimination upon women. On the other(a) hand, Kuan illustrates relations and value in family by manifesting the power of men in family, emphasizing the philosophy of filial piety and placing the signification on ancestral piety and lineage. All of these elements of gender roles and family values argon introduced in this Kuans play, resulting in a worth(predicate) piece of work that reflect how society and people observe about gender and family in Yuan period of China.\n initiative of all, throughout the play, Injustice to Tou O, Kuan depicts the cultural expectations held upon women by introducing the triad Obediences and the quad Virtues of women. These two philosophical ideas played a bou ncy role in antediluvian patriarch China in influencing how women behaved. When Tou scolds Tou Os ghost for the discourtesy that she did not commit, Tou explains the Three Obediences be obedience to [her] father sooner marriage, obedience to [her] husband subsequently marriage, and obedience to [her] (Mair, 704). This philosophy itself indicates that women are expect to be endlessly obedient and be suppress to men. Tou even clearly states that [he] expected [her] to observe (Mair, 704) these expectations. In addition, Tou describes the quatern Virtues of women as service to [her] parents-in-law, think of for [her] husband, being on ripe(p) terms with [her] sisters-in-law and living quiet with [her] neighbors (Mair, 704). None of the Virtues set women in a superior position. Because the Four Virtues were strongly emphasized values in the Yuan China, the women by chance naturally behaved subordinately as it was good to do so. These obediences and virtues leads to once un derlying expectation held upon o...