Research Article

Analyze Supernatural Factors’ Actual Value in Macbeth and The Injustice to Dou E from Brecht's Drama Theory

Yi LuoSchool of Foreign languages, Nankai University, No.94 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, China*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

In the respective drama history of Chinese and British, Guan Hanqing's The Injustice to Dou E and Shakespeare's Macbeth are both significant tragedies. The Injustice to Dou E implies Guan Hanqing's pursuit of fairness, and Macbeth reflects Shakespeare's study of ambition. At the end of the two plays, justice has been upheld finally. This result comes from the process of exposing the darkness: for example, in The Injustice to Dou E, Dou E's three-year drought and other predictions, and the dialogue between her ghost and her father; in Macbeth, the witches' prophecies that Macbeth was the future king and no one could beat him, and the ghost's reappearances of Banco. They are important supernatural factors that face the character's heart directly, expose social reality, and trigger readers' thinking. Using Brecht's famous Epic Drama theory in the 20th century to analyze them, people can more clearly find out the actual value of the supernatural factors and give rationality of social reality and human nature to phenomena that cannot be explained by natural laws.

Keywords: The Injustice to Dou E; the actual value of the supernatural factors; Macbeth; Brecht
Published: February 28, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/2/2022304
Volume: CHR Vol.2
pp. 253-259
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