Images Of Man In The Works Of Zhang Ailing

Ailing Zhang excels at the love and marriage subject, pays attention to stodger's emotional world. Feminine image in her novel has aroused academic circle's widespread interest by its unique charm. However, men are indispensable in the world. The reason why men has not caused the researcher's attention, is because ailing zhang weaken masculine image in her text on purpose. But this is precisely ailing zhang's excellent place, is ailing zhang's strategical expression to masculine right connotation in the rapid degeneration of the special time. Actually, masculine world is rich in ailing zhang's writing. It is another important entrance to study Ailing Zhang. This article focuses on the masculine image in her novels which is different from the traditional views of Zhang Ailing's male world including profiling and typifications of stereotypes. This article systematically divides the male image to three types. Firstly, men who live in the past dream and disillusion. Secondly, men who live in the present, but their life is separated from the fleshand the spirit. Thirdly, men who live in the future indulge in fantasy and suppression. The three types of men constitute the male world in Ailing Zhang's novels. The men in the abscissa axis, they all have similarity but also have different personalities. The men in the axis of ordinates, the three male image is considered as three experiments Ailing Zhang did for the men, the humanity and the era. If the first type of men don't learn how to survive because of the rapid change of the times, so their corruption has a understandable element. What if they are knowledgeable, capable and distionguished? So she created the second type of men. when we see corruption in those men, we are disappointed. However, we still have luck on, because the former two kinds of men are servile. They are influenced by the turbulent society. There may be men that are discontent with the reality and tried to resist. So Ailing Zhang created the third type of men who live in the future. They have dreams and the passion to resist. But eventually they all failed. Ailing Zhang borrows their examples to let us see what the conflicts between easten decayed feudal culture and the western money worship devastates the human nature. These men are deeply engraved with the confusion of that time, corruption, decadence and struggle. Ling in the form of a negative sense from the philosophical community to be on the unique anatomy for the Chinese people's social progress and improving the provision of a side with a "self-appraise" the mirror.