Author(s)

Ruimin Xu

Corresponding Author

Ruimin Xu

Abstract

“Thunderstorm” is one of our famous dramatist, Cao Yu's representative works. Since it was played on the stage, it received mass audience's affection. "Thunderstorm" has widely absorbed many western elements. This paper will analyze deeply the western elements which reflected on the main characters in the play from the original sin in the Christianity, Nietzsche's tragedy philosophy, as well as Oedipus complex in order to let us have a more profound understanding to this great work.

Keywords

The original sin in the Christianity, Nietzsche's tragedy philosophy, Oedipus complex