Chinese and western people, due to social, historical, cultural and many other factors, thinking and ideas are very different. But the pursuit of a better life and the pursuit of the interests of reality are the common feelings of mankind. Therefore, in Pride and Prejudice and A Dream of Red Mansions, we can see the similar personality charm of Darcy and Jia Baoyu though they have different life outcomes.
4.1 Different Ideological Culture
Love is a charming and brilliant word. People in different cultures have different ways of expressing love. In the traditional oriental conservatism, it advocated the subtle and tactful expression of …show more content…
In Pride and Prejudice, there are Elizabeth and Darcy, Jane and Bentley. In A dream of Red Mansions, there are Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. The love between Darcy and Elizabeth has gone through a process, from being caught up in pride and prejudice, eliminating misunderstandings between the two sides, to the mutual love. The love between them is not superficial common secular love which based on judging people by outward appearance. On the contrary, from the beginning of the two people repelling each other to the change of them, the two in the process of mutual appreciation move us. They find each other's shortcomings gradually and discover each other's advantages, so as to have feelings, and get married (Gu Yinghua, 2012: 205). Similarly, it is not love at the first sight between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. We can only say that the two people were interested in each other at the first meeting. After experiencing a process of acquaintance, friend, and love, between the two exchanges in the long time, they reached the interlinked mind and established the pure love finally (Ren Lingyun, 2012: …show more content…
Now, you do not want to read to test lifts or the scholars, you ought to do these officials regularly and tell their economic knowledge. It is useful for your future in the political life and you will have a friend to get help." Who knows Jia Baoyu does not estimate a little girl's face: "please go to the other sisters’ room to sit, I carefully worry about it will dirty the knowledge economy you have known if you are here." Jia Baoyu said: "Sister Lin never say nonsense; if she would say what you just said, and I had always had a distance with her." Lin Daiyu overheard the remark and had mixed feelings of grief and joy. She thought "she is truly right that she always thought he was a friend in daily life and it is sure enough a bosom friend." It is because they do not say such "nonsense" to each other, which becomes the basis of their friendship. Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and even Lin Daiyu, three of them could be Jia Baoyu's wife, but the first two people advised him to strive for his career, only Lin Daiyu indulged him every day. So his loving for Lin Daiyu was always taken for granted. Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu also read "the West Chamber", "Peony Pavilion" secretly which were the kind of novels with anti-feudal ideas. In the eyes of Xue Baochai, this behavior was not indecent (Cao Xueqin, 2014: 148-151). The two characters reflect