【正文】 cow demon the spider beast and a living obstacles symbolize the difficulties and challenges that people meet in the course of character is the main reason that journey to the west keeps reader in book gets more then and uproars gives us readers an unforgivable insight into life for the historical record of journey to the west let39。s go back to the Tang actually recalls the Buddhist monk master Shanchang or master Xuan Zhuang who crossed he mighty desert to reach the India continent during the Tang years later he came back to china with over 600 Buddhist the factual basis of journey to the west was master Xuan Zhuang actually was a little bit different from master san was actually a fictional character created by the author? In a novel, Tang Shanchang maybe a monk on a daring mission to find Buddha he is also a fainthearted hypocrite who lacks transcendent insight and lives life in pectoral is kind and passionate but his inability to distinguish between true and false hood make him all to susceptible to pig39。s effort to sew this result is that he wrongly distresses monkey who can see through the bio schemes of evil spirits and of course when he has fallow blindly in the trap of some fin or other it is always monkey that fall back on for the character of the monk happens to be quite similar to the mythical scholar although he is an idealist at heart he is as weak as a kitten and just sets there helplessly for rescue when he gets into a author is perhaps making a sly jab at the inpetent rulers of his if Tang Shanchang is evaluated purely from his viewpoint of religion or spiritual attainment he appears as not a saintly monk but rather an ordinary monkey is the real hero in journey to the is created from a rock on enchanted mountain and because of his courage and insight is later anointed by his peers as one day in a flash of enlightenment, this glorious monkey king see that life is a very temporary thing and that the delights of his timely existence in the area mountain tree cannot go on he gives it all up to find a master who can guide him on to the path of spiritual is gifted with intelligence and agility both mentally and he puts his talents to use by mastering his skills of wizardry to the point of where he can transform himself 72 times in a blink of an has a magic wan that can shrink smaller the pen or expand till it is like a club of bronze and a magic cloud that can take him up to the heavens or down to the bales of the monkey still retains his mischievous and playful temperament of his fellow intelligence and child like naughtiness are reviled when he does things like deliberately sending pig to scan the near by mountain and then transforming himself into an insect to keep an eye on his indolent nothing the monkey would play in the palace of the sea god in heaven or in Hades even makes a bet with is a rebellious character that will just not bow to established of life and filled with spirit as well as being sincere and optimistic in nature, he is not bothered by suffering and is always ready to face up to new kind of wiliness to forge ahead maybe the stuff those heroes are made out it carries with it a weakness of arrogance impulsiveness and a desire to excel over fills a role that symbolizes the desire to fort and to has magical powers but it is just not the same as makes him seem naive and clumsy by parison monkey just love to tease him so pig does his level best to be a thorn in monkeys side by telling lies about him to tong song is a lazy gluttonous that needs his material forts when it es to trouble he just can39。t hold his side up so is always first to call on for their journey he nearly cast his panion in his own spiritual cultivation he falls for enticement of beautiful women and if finally turns out to be all work of Buddha salvia that has e to test thanks to the author pig ludicrous behavior brings an ironic smile to the readers face rather then a frown of disapproval because while pig makes a laughing stock of him selfthe reader is reminded of the covetous raspy nature that empathy the human character that appears quite less frequently is friar san when he does take the quite resolute and down to nature are readily In journey of the west is purification of the mind so that the entire expedition to find Buddha scriptures is actually a way of achieving spiritual in this play three arrogant weakness laziness even ignorance they are all weakness of human nature that requires spiritual honesty goodness and courage are all our friends in the depths of our this way the journey to the west the various characters in battle with evil and they teach us that in human life it is possible and temper ourselves to achieve ideals and goodness.