Injustice to Tou O by Kuan Han-ch’ing

harm to Tou O by Kuan Han-ching explores and reflects sex roles and family value existed in yuan baseball club. The play presents the sexual activity roles by including the school of thought on expectations on women, illustrating a male-dominated society and disclosing social discrimination upon women. On the other hand, Kuan illustrates relations and values in family by manifesting the personnel of men in family, accentuate the philosophy of filial holiness and placing the significance on contractable worship and lineage. All of these elements of grammatical gender roles and family values are introduced in this Kuans play, resulting in a valuable piece of clip that reflect how society and populate perceive about gender and family in Yuan point of China.\nFirst of all, throughout the play, Injustice to Tou O, Kuan depicts the cultural expectations held upon women by introducing the trinity Obediences and the Four Virtues of women. These deuce philosophical ideas played a vital role in ancient China in influencing how women behaved. When Tou scolds Tou Os wraith for the crime that she did not commit, Tou explains the Three Obediences are obedience to [her] pay back before marriage, obedience to [her] conserve after marriage, and obedience to [her] (Mair, 704). This philosophy itself indicates that women are expected to be always obedient and be subordinate to men. Tou even distinctly states that [he] expected [her] to observe (Mair, 704) these expectations. In addition, Tou describes the Four Virtues of women as dish out to [her] parents-in-law, respect for [her] husband, being on good terms with [her] sisters-in-law and spiritedness peace with [her] neighbors (Mair, 704). None of the Virtues bent-grass women in a master key position. Because the Four Virtues were strongly accent values in the Yuan China, the women perhaps naturally behaved subordinately as it was virtuous to do so. These obediences and virtues leads to once central expec tation held upon o...