Warped Woman And Rebellious Woman

Among the great number of works by modern writers in and outside China who have paid attention to the feminine existence and destiny, Zhang Ailing and D. H. Lawrence have shown their own characteristics; they have depicted from the human aspect the destiny of a warped woman and a rebellious woman. Both the Story of Golden Lock by Zhang and Mrs. Chatterley 's Lover by Lawrence are typical of the contradiction and conflict between human nature and social nature as well as of the feminine existence between distortion and rebellion as a result of social morality and ethnics and money and wealth.The present paper discusses in three parts the similarities and differences of the above-said problems depicted in the two novels.Part I. Zhang Ailing and Lawrence, famous writers for depicting feminine existence and destiny, and both being popular in the first half of the 20th, raised great contention in Chinese and English literary circles.Part II. The Story of Golden Lock and Mrs. Chatterley's Lover are a full exhibition of abnormal feminine existence. Both writers severely denounced andbasically negated their own societies for the evils that had distorted normal human mind.Part III. Cao Qiqiao and Mrs Chatterley: Two women rebelling differently and ended differently. The former, who faced an old and rotten feudalism and its moral concepts, rebelled by being miserly for lack of physiological and sensual satisfaction and headed for the worst distortion of human nature, while the latter, who faced mixed bourgeois and old aristocratic moral concepts, got the man she loved, who helped her out of difficulty.It is the view of the paper that both oriental and west literature face a social life of different nature and that the cultural values of both sides vary with their own long history, which lead to the outstanding differences of the novels in both denotation and artistic means. However, both novels are similar in that in some way human nature can surpass nationalities, territories and time. The suppression, distortion of human nature and rebellion against them will in quite a long time remain a problem of great concern in the literature of every nation across the world. In a word, human nature is unavoidable at any time and in any literature. Therefore, attention to the restoration of human nature through literature in effect equals attention to human destiny.