Hình Ảnh Người Phụ Nữ trong Truyền Kỳ Mạn Lục (Nguyễn Dữ) và Vũ Nguyệt Vật Ngữ (Ueda Akinari)

Abstract

The image of women appeared commonly in supernatural tales of countries in the Han language culture area with many outstanding features. However, currently there are not many specific studies on this image in the truyen ky genre.  Based on the parallel comparison method, this article aims to research the image of women through two typical works: Truyen ky man luc (Nguyen Du) and Vu nguyet vat ngu (Ueda Akinari). The result showed that besides the similarities such as promoting beauty, sacrifice, filial piety, and fidelity, the women in each work also have their own unique characteristics of each nation. If the women in Truyen ky man luc boldly pursue love and happiness for themselves, the women in Vu nguyet vat ngu were fierce in demanding justice for them. They not only showed the general flow of the medieval legend genre in the Han language culture area but also created a unique mark of the image of women in each work.