Woman, Man And Society

Woman physiology, psychology, spirit and experience are distinctive, which makes it possible and essential to hold the female view to read and analyze literary works. This thesis takes the most basic relations between woman and man, woman and society as the subject, and analyses Ding Ling's novels in female view. This thesis carries out its explanation in the following three parts:The first chapter, woman and ego: in May the forth times, the trend of individual's emancipation awakened the woman to self-consciousness; she became conscious of the state of her body and mind. Woman found herself in a dilemma when she had emotional experience and the peril of self-losing faced the awakened woman. In the struggle of emotion against reason, she attempted to control her emotion by using her strong willpower.The second chapter, woman and man: woman is to be faced with the man's world while she experiences her self- world. Man can give woman his love and marriage as well as a family, which the female characters in Ding Ling's works suffered too much. In the process of seeking man and leaving man, woman became more and more firm and mature, and also more complete to understand her self.The third chapter, woman and society: As the trend of the times changed, the emancipation of individual was replaced by the emancipation of nation and social class. The female characters in Ding Ling's works correspondingly began to pursue social value instead of free individual way of life. In the revolutionary years and wartime, women' lives are closely connected with revolution, politics and so on. Women exercised their social consciousness when they tried to adapt themselves to collective life and they even underwent self-reforming. Women positively participated in the social work and undertook social...