An Illusional Escape from the Prison: The Implications of “Dreams of the Secular Life” as a Vanguard Drama Culture

As one of the typical contemporary Chinese vanguard drama, “Dreams of the Secular Life” not only revealed profoundly the contradiction between human subjective desire for the freedom of body and mind and the objective circumstances of spacetime through both views of its structure and story, but also denied ironically various possibilities of the solutions to the above contradiction. Thereupon this play achieved a style of critical realism and spiritual metaphors in its entirety.