Chang From Chrysalis To Butterfly

Growth is a process full of mystery,strangeness,agony.With the awakening of the female consciousness,introduced the opinion of the westen feminism into China,the writer is emancipated from the feudal ideas.In their novels,they show the female(young girls) melancholy,exquisite,pure,romantic,shy,enthusiastic and full of dreams.The biggest contribution of feminism is that it tapped the power and the voice owned by female.They made her become strong,fearless,independent,self-confident.The thesis discusses the manifestation about the adolescent girl's growth of Chinese contemportary initiation stories by physiological and psychological angles.Chapter One,Revival of the body. (One)reflection action (Two)"fission"of the body (Three)desire for male Chapter Two,Open the mind.To set up self-identityis the important process of the adolescent growth,include two parts.One is self-affirmation,the other is the relationship with others.(One)self-affirmation.It reflects the meaning and the value of self-existence through other's affirmation.(1)male affirmation.The most important mentality process in the adolescent period is the forming of self-consciousness and stable self-image,but the prerequisite is to affirm the meaning and the value of self-existence,especially,young girls always care about the male affirmation.(2)elder affirmation.Self-affirmation can be brought about only from other's angle,especially,in the"elder standard"society,young girls need to be attentioned by the elder,and,get a equal existence.(3)female affirmation.The female companion is a mirror of the girl's growth,like looking at oneself in the mirror.She can find herself on friend.The female affirmation makes young girl full of confidence to self-existence and self-image.The female affirmation makes self-affirmation go a step further.(Two)relationship with others.The forming of self-consciousness and stable self-image are the most important mentality process in the adolescent period.This process must bring about changes and recombination with others around.(1)absent father.In fatherhood society,father symbolizes sthength and power,young girl need father's attention,they think father is stronger.Once they separate themselves from their fathers,they become independent.In many contemportary initiation stories,the background of girl's growth is installed in the situation in which father is absent.(2)mother and daughter:future image and life continuation.In Chinese contemportary initiation stories,one expression of girl's growth is the changes of relationship between mother and daughter.Daughter is born out of mother,they are both mother's past and mother's future.When they were young,they depended on her,imitated her,as if mother is perfection.When they grew up,they found that the fact is not like what they thought.We can find a great deal of description about the relationship between mother and daughter.At first,mother take care of daughter,daughter adore mother,as time goes on,they are disgusted with each other.This is because mother hope that daughter can realize the dreams which mother can't realize.The mother frequently displays urgently,valgar,utility,trival,but all these make the daughter who is at the growth stage feel disgusted,even hates.Because mother is daughter's future image,daughter seems to see herself whom would be many years later.(3)sister:play mother's role.While pay attention to the relationship between mother and daughter,we should attention another kind of relation,that is sisters or brother and sister.In these initiation stories,sister plays mother's role.She undertakes the responsibilities(such as do housework,take care of brothers and sisters etc.)which should be completed by mother,at the same time,she also replaces mother in mind.Brothers and sisters are strongly attached to her.We also see the sister's growth through the growth of younger brothers and sisters.Sisters are growing while they pay and lose.Payment and lost are their cost for growth.(4)female companion:mirror of the growth.Young girl always has a close female companion when they are in adolescence period.The chief cause is that in earth stage of adolescence,young girl's consciousness of self-identity just sprout.They need to identify themselves and the best way to identify oneself is confirming the rationality of self-existence through notice the female companion.(5)spirit meeting with young boy and elder male.Chapter Three,The ceremony of the growth. The physical features of young girls decide the particularity of young girls'growth.The thesis displays the particularity of young girls'growth in physiological and psychological aspects through Chinese contemportary initiation stories.When writer,especially female writer shake off all standards and fetters,relocate female body ,existence and the relation with male,it must encourage and increase the influence which young girl re-find herself and build up the subject.