To what degree, if at all, do the inflexibility and adherence to fixed ideas shown by the male protagonists (Pak Hun, The student, Junshi) in each of the following works inhibit them from taking steps to solve their problems?

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A Leap Further By Being Stiff

The concept of being inflexible or being stiff in making decisions has been conceivably one of the finest characteristic which has served the protagonists in the famous stories made in Asian literature . Pak Hun in The Descendants of Cain , the student in Ya Dafu 's Sinking and Junshi in Creation , portray a character which in one point or another gives light to what appears to be sturdy sense of personality in the arena

of decision making and in the context of survival and collaboration with the other characters in the story . Perhaps that certain point of personality is nevertheless one of the viable factors why the aforementioned roles portrayed has been greatly regarded by the viewing audience , and in a larger concept , patronized as distinctive and distinguishing for that instance (Anderson

Pak Hun in Hwang Sun-won 's Descendants of Cain

The main character of the story is Pak Hun , which is characterized as a passive person with eternally hesitant and ineffectual finesse . Even though he is placed in a pedestal of social and political turmoil over the issue of survival and the perception of not acting is not surviving ' the author gave him a powerful disposition in the love story that he has shared with the married lover , Ojaknyo . His nostalgic yet inexorable presupposition on how to help the people in his village without compromising his fists just to save the love he has painstakingly pampered has caused him well in leading on to his venture in life and manhood . Unlike the other heroes in most stories , Pak Hun is deprived to act in his own will , driven by the horrors of reality and of what seemed to be his inherited fate in social class and on his manner in taking on the course of life . Apparently , this so-called stated cowardice has served him the best of his effort , his compassion for others has saved him from the infamous destiny that he has forsaken Being sympathetic and sensitive has been a source of syntax towards emotion and a stronger drive for the Hamlet-like character to lead more than what he might further get in return of the inflexibility ' not to move mountains but to live a life worth living ADDIN EN .CITE Choe7Wolhee ChoeThe Descendants of CainPacific AffairsPacific Affairshttp /links .jstor .org /sici ?sici 0030-851X 2973 3A2 3C303 3ATDOC 3E2 .0 .CO 3B2-D (Choe

The Student in Ya Dafu 's Sinking

The connotation of national allegory ' in Yu Dafu 's Sinking offers an articulate and interwoven portrayal as represented by the student in the story ADDIN EN .CITE Denton7Kirk A DentonThe Distant Shore : Nationalism in Yu Dafu apos s "Sinking "Chinese Literature : Essays Articles , Reviews (CLEAR )Chinese Literature : Essays , Articles , Reviews (CLEAR )2http /links jstor .org /sici ?sici 0161-9705 2914 3C107 3ATDSNIY 3E2 .0 .CO 3B2- W (Denton Consequently , several critics portrayed the character as that which depicts the political situation of...