Variation Within And Outside The Siege

The deepest transportation of culture and social ideas belongs to May4th New Cultural Movement, which is regarded as both an idea revolution and an ethic one; intellectuals in the period advocated independent personality while opposed feudal ethics, especially the view that men are superior to women, therefore, they viewed the reform and innovation of marriage ethics as the breakthrough of prompting social reform. With the development of the woman’s liberation movement, some issues, such as divorce, remarry, bachelorhood, conception of chastity, marital and social freedom and the abolition of marriage drew social attention widely, which caused a vast emerging marriage works bearing New Democracy liability responding to the4th New Culture Movement, in return, making marriage ethics reform influential, promoting the development of it in modern Chinese literature.Exploring narrative literature about marriage ethics means focusing on the modernization process of Chinese traditional marital ethics and analyses of the writers’consciousness, spiritual demands and traditional personality structure during that period. By studying the connotation of ethical norms, marriage ethics and national culture psychology, the paper tries to explore the interactive track of May4th literature and martial ethic reform by examining love and marriage literature works in the historical circumstances of New Cultural Movement. The paper contains six parts.The introduction explores the booming love and marriage literature emerged in the4th New Cultural Movement, which is explained as an inevitable consequence according with world trends outside and social status inside;it claims that ethic research perspectives is to be extended, in addition, the historical significance and ethic values of the May4th literature can be explored. By studying May4th love and marriage literature as well as ideological trend of marriage and ethic reform; on the research method, this paper stresses on both ethical criticism and history culture study.Chapter one explores the background, origins and causes of May4th ethical doctrine as well as love and marriage literature. There is a close relationship between the May4th literature and the literature of the late Ming and early Qing periods, which can be confirmed by abundant romances, precise and deep insight into relationship and feelings between sexes. May4th literatures are derived from feminist and anti-feudal opinions as well as the influence of western learning from the point of ideology and history.Chapter two is about love ethical narrative. The May4th period is a period which generated romantic love. New youth advocate personal standard instead of family oriented, Highlighting individual ethics brings free love and marriage autonomy demands, and promote awareness of modern production and sexual arousal. Due to the lack of moral discipline and individual rationality and moral autonomy, the emergence of free love, sexual freedom and the freedom of marriage tangled, resulting in a "free" proliferation and new moral crisis. Intergenerational conflict in the mother-daughter narrative, human relations and conflict motherly love become cry against patriarchy and publicity, the individual is still a lack of individuality and conforms to social trendy puppet. It means that writers are lack of deep understanding of patriarchal nature and structure, either filial love succumb to ideological core of the intergenerational ethics, ethical dilemmas of love shows the complexity of the patriarchal system of intergenerational ingrained ethic and transition of the writers Ethics.Chapter three explores marital problems ethical narrative within the family. In the transition from the old era, the new husband and old style wife formed a new family crisis, and traditional marriage ethics patriarchal supremacy and patriarchy based thinking still exists in the relations between the sexes, thus creating a new personality and old-fashioned virtues flooding situation. The implicit standard and traditional patriarchal system combined to "free love","freedom of divorce" and other new ideas form a new oppression of women. Because of the demands of ethical conflicts ahead between precocious and economic backwardness, many new youth query the prospects for relations between the sexes. During this period how to adapt conflict between family roles and career is the main problem that women achieve self-realization of gender. Men and women shared family affairs and responsibilities which is an attempt to blur gender differences and gender awareness in double dilution utopian ideal of harmony. Writers on writing affair traditional virtue ethics questioned affair against the feudal patriarchal narrative from advocating free love and to reflect on ethical issues in the affair and responsibility to act. As traditional cultural births, the writers followed the moral narrative logic and rationality return to the ethical standard of the traditional family. Although the "broken" is more than "up". The writers try their efforts to rebuild bisexual harmonious ethics.Chapter four is concerned about divorce and fleeing ethical narrative. Ideas of freedom of marriage advocated by intellectuals in the May4th period promoted the transition of marital ethics from family departmentalism to personal one. The intellectuals puts personal rights and values first, advocating that people necessarily enjoy the freedom of divorce and the standard of divorce is absence of true love, but the real situation after divorce and people’s identification with traditional ethics makes the process of modernization of Chinese marriage ethics a long and winding road. The new abandoned wives are actually victims of changing times. Some writers challenged the ideas of emancipation of women advocated by some male torchbearers. The characters of fleeing their homes in the May4th literature works are greatly different from those who has completely awakened in personality and sometimes they are only arranged anti-tradition roles. Nora spread in May Fourth Movement in China. The acceptance, writing and shaping, the main projection model is ideal for shaping the purpose of anti-feudal and male writers needed social reforms, but also an imaginary fantasy, Whether Nora left away or stayed at home, she is a puppet who is dependent on the male. The male writers transplant and misappropriate China Nora do not change the ethics of gender relations, which can not make new women’s dream of "to be a real women" come true.Chapter five focuses on narrative related the abolishment of marriage and keeping single. It analyses the phenomenon of bachelorhood both in China and western world, explores the ideological origins of destroying family;Abolishing marriage and remaining single is the woman’s the hopeless choices and the rebel against traditional man superiority and managed marriage. Homosexual love writing expresses the oppression against the transgression of gender norms of heterosexual marriage patriarchal culture hegemonic order. Homosexual love writing questioned the scope of traditional heterosexual love, expanding the human love space.May4th literature marriage ethics narrative involved in the construction of modern marriage ethics and highlighting the ethical demands and modern active imagination, the writers think about the construction of the complex path of sex and gender connotation of modern harmony ethics, which have the profoundness and transcendence. Due to the long-term patriarchy ethical culture disseminated, marriage ethics narrative become the fanatical revolutionary war slogans or ethical strategies and unreal imagination. It also shows that ethics theory during radical period possesses complexity, transitivity, extremism and contradictoriness, The defects and achievements of literary narrative have gained value and significance of the specimen, and became the literary history and an important part of our literary experience. It provides an effective way for us to explore the pursuit of literary modernity and modernization of Chinese marriage and ethics.