What are the characteristics of Laoshe Teahouse in drama structure and characterization?

(1) Wang Lifa, the center of the teahouse.

Wang Lifa is the central figure in Teahouse and the manager of Yutai Teahouse, which runs through the whole play. Wang Lifa is a person with distinct personality. He is honest, intelligent and capable, but he can also assess the situation, protect himself wisely and handle things tactfully. He has rich experience in dealing with people and knows what to say when meeting people. However, such a shrewd and cautious person could hardly survive in those days, and finally Yutai Teahouse went bankrupt. Wang Lifa's mentality, that is, resignation and peaceful life, was shared by many people at that time. Although Wang Lifa's position is higher than that of ordinary people, it ended in a tragic ending.

(2) The frequent visitor to the teahouse is often Grandpa Four.

Grandpa Chang is an old customer of Yutai Teahouse. He is an upright, patriotic and strong man. Grandpa Chang has a somewhat different identity from others. He is a privileged standard-bearer and a "breadwinner", but even so, he still hates corrupt Qing Dynasty and foreigners. Master Chang's image-building largely reflected people's dissatisfaction and resistance to the current life situation at that time.

(3) The landlord Qin

Qin, the landlord, is also an important figure in Teahouse, a typical capitalist image, with abundant property and certain influence. Qin is a self-righteous man. He thinks he is superior and can't communicate with others. He believes that people live in this world to enjoy life. He doesn't want to be lonely and do something outrageous and immoral. He also thinks that eating, drinking, whoring and gambling is a great pleasure in life. Although he advocated industry to save the country, painstakingly managed and struggled alone in the dark, if he lived and managed with such a mentality, his tragic ending could be expected.

Second, the artistic features of Teahouse

Language art

Laoshe's Teahouse is a work full of "Beijing flavor", and the authentic Beijing dialect runs through this work, which has distinct regional and national colors. A particularly obvious feature of Beijing dialect is Hua Er Yin, which is a symbol of "Beijing flavor". Moreover, the extensive use of quantifiers and reduplications in the play also increases the oral color of the works, making the script language easy to understand and catchy.

The language of the main characters in the script is also designed with distinctive features. Lao She set his own language style according to his identity, status, personality and other factors, which is conducive to the characterization. For example, Wang Lifa, the shopkeeper, has a thoughtful and polite language and can answer questions when dealing with people from all walks of life, which not only shows his identity, but also reflects his smooth handling characteristics. Often a frequent visitor to the teahouse, his language is generous and frank, which accords with his upright and generous character. These unique language styles also show Lao She's superb language control ability. Therefore, the language style with the characteristics of characters makes the characters in the play more distinctive, and also increases the artistic characteristics of the language.

In addition, the refined and accurate language of Teahouse also increases the artistic value of this work. The language of this work can be refined to two or three sentences to express a person's personality characteristics. Moreover, the refined language in the script is also philosophical. For example, in the second act, Li San said, "Improve, improve, the more you change, the colder you get!" These two or three simple sentences reveal the disadvantages of the times, summarize the reality and cruelty of that society, and show the psychological state of the people at the bottom, which is also the language and artistic characteristics of this work.

(B) the unique drama structure

The most important artistic feature of teahouse is its unique structure. When Lao She wrote Teahouse, he broke the traditional drama structure and made bold innovations. According to the time, the play is divided into three acts, which reflect three different times. The first scene describes people's living conditions after the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 in the late Qing Dynasty. The second act describes people's living conditions after the warlord scuffle in the early Republic of China; The third act describes the miserable living conditions of people before the liberation war. Through a teahouse and the people and things in it, three different times and three different living conditions are connected in series, which breaks through the traditional narrative structure of "one person and one thing" and breaks the limitation of time and space.

(C) the combination of narrative and drama

Teahouse adopts a narrative method combining narrative and drama. In his creation, Mr. Lao She takes narrative as the main means of expression, tells the story content, and then combines it with drama. By portraying typical characters, creating dramatic conflicts and setting the fate of characters, he adds drama to the script, combines narrative with drama, and reflects the typical characteristics of that era through typical events of typical characters, which has high artistic achievements.

Third, the conclusion

Lao She's works have always been of great research value. He is a writer with the characteristics of the times. Teahouse is also a drama with high artistic achievements. Is the representative of the heyday of China's drama. It has great innovation in language art and drama structure, and has profound historical significance. Since its performance, Teahouse has attracted the attention of people at home and abroad and won unanimous praise, which has also made China's drama occupy a place on the international stage.