What kind of person is Du Shinniang?

From Du Shinniang's cursing of Sun Fu and Li Jia, and then throwing herself into the river, it can be seen that Du Shinniang has self-respect and self-love, strong and trustworthy, and would rather bend than break. Li Jia, on the other hand, is a weak, selfish, unassertive and treacherous son of a rich family. This difference in character sets the stage for Du Shinniang's tragedy.

Even if Li A knows that Du Shuniang's box is full of precious jade, worth ten thousand gold, and his parents are strict, he can eat and wear nothing in the future, Li A can't be loyal to Shuniang all his life, because Li A is a rich and noble son, a playboy, and his feelings for Du Shuniang are real, but once he conflicts with his own life-long interests and family status and reputation, he will be shaken, and it is not possible for him to become a man who transcends his time, and can't get out of his life. man, it is impossible to be detached from the environment in which he lives. Therefore, it is said that Li Jia could not be loyal to Du Shuniang for life.

So, is Du Shinniang's tragedy accidental or inevitable? From the analysis of the plot development process, Du Shinniang's tragedy is full of many accidents, but these accidents are the inevitable nourished by the social environment at that time. The traditional moral concepts of women's dependent status and the humble social status of prostitutes, the relationship between people with profit, these are incompatible with the pursuit of pure feelings, resulting in the inevitability of the tragedy of Du Shinniang.

Maybe you will say, Du Shiniang has the unknown treasure chest, she can redeem herself, or find another soulmate, or raft the river and lake, but she chose to sink to the bottom of the river, why is this? On this issue we can realize that: Du Shuniang pursuit is not a short period of love, not a formal marriage, but a kind of mutual cherish and respect for the true love. In her long life as a prostitute, she was bullied, and when she finally went to the good side after all her hard work, what she got was to be cheated, bought and sold, and abandoned. In this social environment where personality, dignity, conscience and emotion are bought and sold as commodities, her ideal of pursuing true love is shattered, so she chooses to fight with death.