Male Perspective, Women In The World

Since the existence of class society, the discourse of human being on the female has been modeled on the position of the male. Because of the limitations of the male-dominated society, those male writers always create the female figures in their works from the point of view of a man. The heroines in their works lack the female quality observed from the point of view of a woman. The female characters, in the works of the male writers, are only the tools of social criticism and the carriers of emotional expression. All these cannot represent the true feelings and desires of the female nor express the inner soul of them.As a male writer, Mr. Jia Ping-wa is famous for his unique understanding and delicate description of the female characters in his works. Those female characters in his works, when observed and described in the eye of a man falls into three groups: (1). Those kind-hearted goddess-like female characters; (2). Those characters have the mixed characteristics of both a devil and an angel; (3). Those female city-dwellers who are both radical and conservative in their behaviors and ideas. Those character-portrayal are the product of a male-dominated culture as well as an ideal expression of Mr. Jia's hidden consciousness towards women. Hence the female characters in his novels didn't give the readers their own real emotional experience nor their inner thoughts. Those female characters are greatly idealized by Mr. Jia. Behind his respect and idealization of those characters, we can see a pair of man's eyes filled with the male-dominance.From the historical and social point of view, we can see that those female characters in Mr. Jia's works are always idealized one-sided loves created by those traditional men of letters. From the view point of character-portrayal, the female characters described ideally by a male writer are strictly controlled and manipulated by the writer. Those female characters only existed for the fulfillment of a male writer's need and expectation. They cannot live independently nor have their own personality. They are not real human beings. This phenomenon is a great loss in his works which not only hinders his surpassing of the tradition but also his making of being unqiue.