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Last Time He Shen Character Analysis
He-Shen (和珅), the main character of the play Last Time, This Time, and Next Time by Yi-Kang Feng, is the character that I am performing. He-Shen was the First Royal Duke (一等忠襄公), which was only level below the emperor of Qing dynasty. The first scene of Last Time and This Time starts with He-Shen describing his lake is his only friend and shifts to a tour guide (Unknown name) leading people to He-Shen’s mansion. The tour complains that he is not ready to marry his rich girlfriend, Coco, because he has another girlfriend. The second scene He-Shen shows audience the story of the stone and his step-mother, which I am performing, and the tour starts to talk his second girlfriend, Apple, who works really hard in her restaurant. Apple hopes one day she could buy an small apartment and marry the tour. The third scene He-Shen talks the story of meeting his step-mother and watching her death, and the tour starts to complain that he doesn’t know who he should marry. In the final scene of Last Time and This Time, …show more content…
He-Shen’s role in the play was the person who made the decision Last Time in this mansion. He was the extreme rich person who had no family and friends. On the other hand, the tour is the person who is making decision This Time of his marriage. He-Shen was a normal child with a well being family. As Feng created the story of his step-mother betrayal (his father and mother die young was true story), He-Shen made arduous efforts to become the richest person of the Qing dynasty. To everyone, He-Shen was like a God who control anything he wants, who had money to do anything he wished, however, he owned everything and lost his true love and motivation. He said that his lake was his only friend, who would never leak any secret, and the only thing he really wanted was his step-mother’s fry tofu, which he could never get

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