Marx pointed out: "Any myth is to conquer, dominate and visualize natural forces with imagination and with the help of imagination." The Monkey King's "magical power" embodies the ancient people's fantasy of their own strength growth and their confidence in conquering nature. The Monkey King is a hero full of positive romantic spirit in China.
The Monkey King's younger brother Zhu Bajie set each other off. He has many excellent qualities and many things that make people laugh. He does dirty work, such as picking luggage, carrying bodies, burying heads and sweeping garbage. On the way to learn from the scriptures, I am lazy to sleep whenever I have the opportunity; Pig Bajie is also brave in fighting with goblins, but sometimes he uses the toilet (to go to the toilet) to escape the fight. The most impressive thing about Pig Bajie is his many small faults: he loves to eat and sleep, he loves to take advantage, he loves to be jealous, he loves to make trouble, and he quits when he encounters difficulties. He sometimes plays a little clever, but he screws up big things. But Pig Bajie is still a good man. He was simple and honest, and didn't mean to harm anyone. In the end, he persisted in the final victory. It is not easy to write a character with many weaknesses to like and remember.
Compared with the Monkey King and Pig Bajie, the third disciple, Friar Sand, has fewer stories and less anger. However, he is an indispensable supporting role. If Monkey had a problem with Pig, he would come out to intercede and mediate. When the two brothers went out, he would accompany the master. Without this disciple, the Tang Priest would be in danger and could not get the scriptures.
Tang Xuanzang did exist in history, and the Tang priest in the novel was a brand-new artistic image created by the writer. He is a very complicated figure. On the one hand, he is kind-hearted and firm in faith, knowing that going to the Western Heaven will inevitably encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and "good or bad luck is hard to decide", but he still goes forward without hesitation. No matter how many difficulties he encountered, no matter how many temptations the outside world had, he never wavered. On the other hand, this Tang Priest is a rather timid person. He is always at a loss when he meets a monster. He rolled off the saddle and said with tears. Once he left his apprentice, he couldn't even eat. Worst of all, he is too careless and kind. When the Monkey King took the initiative to exorcise demons, Tang Priest always dismissed it as "unintentional good", "intentional evil" and "unappreciative", and even closed his eyes and read his mantra, which made the Monkey King unable to fight exorcism, and as a result, he often suffered disasters. The Tang Priest was originally a hierarch who went to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures, but he was severely criticized in his novels. This shows that Journey to the West does not preach religion, but only takes the story of learning from the scriptures as the framework for telling stories.