On The Awakening Woman Characters In Country Life Novels Since The"Wusi" Movement

Women Problem is a part of social problem Attitude towards women marks the civilization degree of a society. As an agricaltural country,the majority of China's population is country women,who suffered most from feudalist ideology. Thus, the living condition of country women can most typically reveal essential contraditions of society, and arouse easing people's cansidering and sympathy, so, both revolutionists and progressing writers in history have paid full attention, in their life, to the fate of country women,as well as the solutions to the emancipation problem. If we say that"In any society, the emancipation degree of women is a natural standard measuring universal e-mancipation,"and"the improvement of a society can be measured accurately in women's social status", then it will be quite necessary to make a systematical & complete revisiting on the awakened women images in novels dealing with country material since May,4th.Based on the time features and the thought tendency dominating in each stage in the development of modern & comptemporary literature in China, this article focuses on the awakended women images in each stage of country material since May,4th,in a systematical and complete way. The article also puts emphasis on the historical ralue, and the social meaning of novels dealing with country material, so as to show the emancipation degree of country women in each degree, including the serious hardships women met in their emancipation,and the futural tendency, As a result, the emancipation and civility degree of the society can be penetrated clearly.This paper falls into 5 Parts, From an Perspectine of art - and - reality, Parts One demonstrates the historical destiny of women,in order to reveal that,though the "footbinding cloth"on Chinese women's feet had been wiped out,the mental barrier in their mind, still exists to restrain women, and influence the social development,The complete emancipation of women will be a long historical process, which will gothrough our social life until communism realized. By analyzing the awakened women images at each stage of novels dealing with country material since May,4th,Part Two unfolds the historical process of the awakened women set free from the feudal:boundary in 1920's, to self-counscious awakening. It points out that, the emanci pating process of chinese country women from slaves to human being,lastly to"new socialist people"with independence, has marked their mastery status on the motherland with long history. At the same time, a history of women's self - emancipation is shown vividly,through the analysis of the process, Part Three emphasizes the characteristics of creating such a serie of awakened women characters. Fistly,such descriptions are vivid incications of both social life and the process of emancipation of women. Secondly, they are the indication of writers artistic inspiraiton. Therefore, this part shows that women are the product of time, therir fate is closely related with that of our country and people. The trace of their seeking for a new life clearly reviews the emancipation process of country women. The consideration and description on their fate from writers are the illustration of women's beautiful hopes, and writer's creating tendency - from a realistic point of view,and a positive attitude the writers tend to call on for country mumen,so as to arouse new women of a higher level to he born. The last two parts,Part Four & Five provide the reasons why the novels dealing with country material in 90's lack new women images,arousing the thinking of the writers dealing with country material. Most of the chinese are living in countryside,so,country women's living condition,social status,and emancipation degree are still a standard of measuring the degree of social development;concerning on country women's destiny is still a major task of writers dealing with country material. Therefore, with elder generation of writers as examples, they are expected to take up such tasks, to describe "new" women images in new country under sociali...