On The "Nora" Phenomenon In The Works Of Modern Chinese Writers

The series of "Nora" images in China construct a typical Chinese type. These "Nora" images open the door for women to the criticism against the man-centered society. They also provide a premise for understanding women's liberation of the time. Although we are unable to recover the historical background, by probing into literature works of that particular lime and by organizing, analyzing and positioning the complicated, subtle and circulating process, we may discover modern Chinese writers' reflection on women's liberation and apperception of women's independence of personality, which is helpful for overall survey into modern literature.By inducing and interpreting "Nora" images from the perspectives of plot narrating mode and gender imagination, and by employing comparative method, this thesis tries to research into the essence through phenomenon. In the spreading of Nora in modern China, China's "Nora" images, described as rebels, aloof from the prototype of Nora by Ibsen and form a series of sinicized "Nora". They may be categorized into the returning type, the corrupted type, the depressed type, the variant type, the newly-born type and the exploring type. Comparing the different perspectives of male and female writers, we may find that they have differences although they share some commonness. When male writers pose as the guides, they take the "man-centered stand" with a contradicted sense of both cheering and wavering. However, as the embracer of women's liberation, female writers have their self-identification and baffle. The different gender of writers, the inertia of traditional culture, and the misreading of foreign culture are factors that cause differences between male and female writers.