Xueqin's The Story Of The Stone

When meaning is blunt, it is overpassed; when meaning is true it is disregarded. The Story of the Stone artfully captures the essence of truth and beauty, and despite being directly stated, these themes can be easy to overlook. The story follows the passions and obligations of innocent love, while addressing aspects of culture and literature. Furthermore, he story is set in the form of a fable, and the author uses this technique to drive the messages of the story. Therefor, The Story of the Stone is able to assess pressing issues and offer insight into human nature and truth. So begins the story of the stone, a masterful work following the life of the mystical stone on earth, which expresses meanings of life and love in an artful fable.
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Some messages, such as changes in literature and irrelevancy of time, are blantly asserted by the author, while others require a bit of inquisitive reading. The author acknowledges the uniqueness of the story in the time period it was given, but he intentionally disregards the stigmas of the time in pursuit of a very serious and imperative subject. Xueqin desires his readers to gain insight through his reading, and sets up the text in such a way as to allow for interpretation to personal context. Largely, he seems tired of the formulaic nature of meaningless literature and desires an interesting and wholesome alternative, thus The Story of The Stone. Keeping this in mind, the reader is exposed to the possibility of noble pursuits and introspective insight to the beauty of truth. In this, issues of society, pressed by outside forces, are nearly disregarded. The act of suppressing the role of social conformity to the text shows the destructive quality of the nature of society, as well as equalizing importance of characters despite their economic standings or lineage. More than anything, this shows the blindness and purity of the love within the text and the ways in which individual fulfillment are reached outside of the boundaries of so-called