1. Successfully shaped the typical artistic image of Dou E. First of all, I wrote about the richness of Dou E's personality. In her body, there are kindness, meekness, filial piety and loyalty, and strong and tenacious resistance to evil, which is the unity of opposites. At the same time, these excellent qualities are also mixed with feudal ethics to a certain extent, making them typical representatives of lower-class women. Secondly, the fluidity of Dou E's character is written. Dou E has changed from an ordinary woman who abides by women's morality to a rebel who dares to scold heaven and earth and denounce the government. Her character gradually changed with the development of realistic contradictions and struggles. The author describes this transformation process in detail, which is continuous, phased and full of levels.
2. The author used the combination of realism and romanticism to create a strong tragic atmosphere and received good artistic effects. Dou E Yuan profoundly reveals the social roots and inevitability of Dou E's tragedy, reflects the major issues of essential significance in feudal society, and has a distinct theme and a profound realistic spirit. However, Dou E's three vows on the execution ground have actually been realized one by one. The ghost accusation and official verdict at the end are obviously surreal fantasy descriptions, which reflect the good wishes of the lower class and have a strong romantic color. At the same time, it deepens the theme and makes the tragic atmosphere of the work more intense.
3. The contradictions in the script are highly concentrated, the plot is compact, and the conflicts are overlapping and interlocking. The whole play focuses on Dou E's tragic fate to organize dramatic contradictions and write various contradictions and conflicts, but the author focuses on two main lines: one is the conflict between Dou E and the social evil forces represented by Zhang Lver; The second is the conflict between Dou E and the feudal government represented by Geng Tao, of which the latter is the main one, and other contradictions and conflicts are subject to the arrangement of the main line. This makes the plot concentrated and the structure accurate. The author is also ingenious in the arrangement of the ending purpose. The development of the plot is not only distinct, but also gives people a sense of compactness and climax, giving people an unpredictable sense of tension, which makes the whole plot appear ups and downs and swaying.
4. The language is popular, vivid and refined, which forms a unique language style that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, and shows the common characteristics of Guan Hanqing's zaju language art.
Dou E Yuan is the representative work of Guan Hanqing, a dramatist in Yuan Dynasty, and it is also a model of drama tragedy in Yuan Dynasty. The plot of the play is based on the folk story of "a filial wife in the East China Sea" in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It tells the story of a poor scholar Dou who gave his daughter to Cai as a child bride to repay usury and her husband died young within two years. Zhang Donkey failed to betroth her to her mother-in-law, poisoned her soup and killed her father by mistake. On the contrary, Zhang Maolv falsely accused his father of poisoning him, and finally the wrong case will be beheaded, and he also made an oath of "blood stained white silk, heavy snow for three years" before he died. Dou was the first senior official in the last examination hall. When he returned to Chuzhou and heard about it, Dou E was finally rehabilitated.
Dou E Yuan is one of China's famous tragedies. It is a famous traditional drama with high cultural value and broad mass base. About 86 operas have adapted and staged this drama.