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The Myth Of Deconstruction And Retell

Posted on:2013-11-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y NingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330377957125Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The book of Nvwa reconstructs a family fable in a unique angle, which is the product of female consciousness. With the power of the primitive myth, the work moulds the heroin’s great creativity---a metaphor of the ability to reproduce. Meanwhile, the tragic ending of the goodness shows the declination of the family’s fortune. Customarily, the work manages to subvert the traditional culture spirit which is constructed by males with anti-narrative angle. The book of Nvwa is an evidence of Xukun’s participating in the national narration, while other female authors take delight in describing of personal field. This paper manages to authenticate that the book of Nvwa, on one hand, is supportive to the destruction of family system camp. On the other hand, plays a significant role in the construction of national nation. The focus of this paper lies in revealing the origin of the inevitable success of paternal system during the battle between females and males. Although there is resistance existing, females can do nothing but compromise under the great power of speaking right.This paper is mainly divided into four parts, the first part, with the help of Nuwa’s genesis myths, elaborates the heroin’s great maternity. In primary society, the most basic conditions of human existence are the ability of the reproduce. Therefore, however rigorous the myth is, NuWa’s reproductive ability can be considered as the basic godhood of NvWa. In this case, the author carries the maternity to an extreme, which confirms the females’important part in carrying on family line. At the same time, the author takes back the chauvinism and allocates the authority to females. It is the females who take the executive responsibilities instead of the males who are absent in YU’s family. In fact, this arrangement decomposes the traditional family system in a way. The second part demonstrates that the females legalize and internalize the chauvinism and participate in reproducing it in a voluntary and conscious way after it has been established. That is to say, myths conceal the rule’s misbehaviors and the invisible oppressions of the ruled in a transformative way. In order to make the chauvinism unarguable, it hides its essence with a softhearted and harmonious appearance. While the females stick up for it in an internalized thought pattern.In the third part, the author compares NvWa with FuXi FuXi. From the connation aspect, the two books represent differently. FuXi stands for the chauvinism, which is in an inborn connection with unequal and hierarchy social system. So to speak, these two books have the same effect on the matter of the oppression created by the family system, but on the other hand they have totally different essences. The two books, which possess rational spirit of enlightenment, are actually the deep reflections and understandings of civilization as well as the social history.The last part is the summary of the whole paper. XuKun uses metaphors to express her reflection of human being’s history of civilization. She makes a thorough inquiry of the females’living circumstances in the book. Dating back to the Godness age, she perceives the society in which there are no class, oppressions and ethnics. Taking a panoramic view of the civilization history of thousands years, the author redescribes the great and beautiful goodness---Nv Wa. She shows us the great creativity, vitality and the spirit of sacrifice with the help of the greatness of the Godness. However, the males’ appearance breaks the balance, which makes females the tools for reproducing. When males take in the right to govern a whole family from females thoroughly, they will become the "second sexuality".
Keywords/Search Tags:myth, gender, family system
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