Study of the Changing Liannichang’s Images in The Bride with White Hair Swordman Novel to The Bride with White Hair TV Series in 2012

Abstract

This research aimed to study the changing Liannichang’s images in The Bride with White Hair, a Swordman novel published in 1996, and The Bride with White Hair TV series in 2012. The theory of adaptation was used for analysis. The result showed that Liannichang’s images in the novel have brutal, helpful, sympathetic, grateful, and faithful images. Liannichang’s images in the TV series have brutal, helpful, sacrificeable, and faithful images. The researcher found that Liannichang’s family background persisted throughout in that she did not have a family and grew up with a wolf. When adapted as a TV series, it was revealed that Liannichang had symptoms of sickness (she did not control herself). This was reflected in a brutal image. Character relationships have conventions, extensions, reductions, and modifications in some situations, and these factors reflect helpful, sacrificeable, grateful, and faithful images. When adapted to the TV series, these reduced sympathetic and grateful images, but appeared instead to be sacrificeable because the TV series modified Tiefeilong in the negative role. These images still reflect the five constant virtues of Confucianism; they showed that the helpful and sympathetic images reflected benevolence, and they can expand the grateful image of propriety. The faithful image reflects fidelity. The last factors that reflect on the changing Liannichang’s images are the era and the limitations of the story

Keywords

• liannichang
• images
• the bride with white hair
• swordman novel
• novel adaptation