The web drama Cat s Cradle is adapted from the novel The Bad Kids by the writer Zi Jinchen(紫金陈). As a successful case of cross-text adaptation, it breaks through the typological characteristics of suspense dramas that simply pursued solving cases and solving mysteries in the past. Suspense is similar to family ethical issues. The combination produces many realistic topics such as the good and evil of human nature, juvenile delinquency, family relations and so on. It tells the story of family ethics in the transition period of contemporary Chinese society in multiple dimensions, and provides the audience with a very open and diversified text. The play is worth paying attention to in terms of character creation. The adaptation of characters in the play has the characteristics of de-symbolization, diversification, and mirroring. Based on the development of the plot, this article focuses on the image analysis of the two mirrored figures of Zhang Dongsheng and Zhu Chaoyang. It mainly uses Carl Gustav Jung’’s personality mask theory to discuss the ethical dilemmas and ethical choices faced by the characters, discussing family, society, and the environment of the times. On the basis of the important significance of many factors to the formation of the character s psychological mechanism, using the family as a window to investigate the complexity of human nature and the symptoms of the times in the transition period of contemporary Chinese society.
1. 绪论
2. 人格面具
3. 人物伦理困境归因
4. 结语