On the Tragedy of Xiangling from a Feminist Perspective

Many female unique figures with striking features were molded in A Dream of Red Mansions of which Xiangling is the first one appearing in the novel. She is beautiful, mild, honest and naive and special charm. However, in the feudal society, she had inevitably become the one among the female group who should get people's sympathy, is invisible under the patriarchy confinement,and became the victim who was doomed to be