The Examining And Rebuilding By Oneself Of Women's Consciousness

In Zhang Ai-ling's novels, she not only regards female tragedy but also divesinto interword of hearts to examine the female weaknesses in the spirits. And sheexaminesand analyzes all kinds of female psychological diseases and sexweaknesses in matemity, matemal affection, and self-respect.Influenced by various factors such as her childhood experiences andeducational background , etc, Zhang Ai'ling turned out to be a writer of strongfemale consciousness in the history of modern Chinese literature. By probing intothe female life of that particular era with her unitque female perpective anf gendersensitivity, she discussed women's humble living status beyong their control angportrayed their groupfeature of sub-culture like estrangement, silence, alliteracy,dependency, etc. Zhang opined that the group tragedy of female is attributable, onone hand, to the control oppression and direction of the deep-root male dominiontradition and on the other hand ,to woman's willingness to be ensalaved. Zhang'sprofound and serious self-reflection has exerted amarkedly significant impact on thehistory of modern Chinese women literature since the May-4th Movement.