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Analysis Of Dou E's Monologue

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On pages 67 and 68 we find the Dou E, Cai, Donkey and Tao in court. Donkey is accusing Dou E of putting poison in his father’s soup. Dou E is innocent because it was Donkey who put the poison in the soup in order to poison Cai subsequently forcing Dou E to be his wife. On these pages we have Dou E getting beaten and not confessing to the crime she didn’t commit. It was not until Toa threatened to beat Cai that she decided to say that she committed the murder. These two pages are very important to the play. Without knowing the reasons behind Dou E confession it would make no sense for her to do so. The rest of the play would be incomprehensible. Dou E’s monologue on page 67 is not the important text on these pages because it is just retelling

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