The Creation Of The Feminine Literature During The May 4th Movement

The feminine literature of May 4th appeared in a large social changes and the era of ideological emancipation. This reflects women's awakening and the following confusion and contradiction in the time background of "people's" awakening. Their works expose the social diseases, analyze person's soul, discuss the question of life, and concern over the realistic social question and the living condition of the lower strata, writing all kinds of "question novels" which expose the social malpractices. However, love and marriage are the main theme of feminine literature in that period. Pursuit of the freedom and independence of marriage, the confusion and perplexity when facing love, the contradiction between family and career, and the entanglement between motherly love and affection are the main objects of women writers' creation. They write women's difficult growing process which is filled with confusion and contradiction. The women are living in the times of social transformation, and they are pursuing personal independence and individual freedom. They just leave the old families, and inevitably there are all kinds of connections. There are many concerns behind their revolts. The pressure from family, society, and from their own make them in a quandary, undergoing the sufferings in many conflicts. They write a survival picture of adolescent females from the rebels as daughters, the following confusions, then to the perplexity as wives. During this period, females are awakening, from the ignorant, as the materialization of "inhuman" to the "people"; from the following confusion and perplexity to the awakening as women. In these different stages of life, as feminine individual, their dreams are disillusioned constantly. They also introspect on themselves and the society, moved towards the unceasing maturity from the puberty. It is exactly the courage, confusion, and awakening in the process of pursuing the self-liberation and achieving their ideal let us understand women's difficult living process during the special periods, feel their difficult growing and the real portrayal of their lives. In this special time of the new replacing the old, the creations of female writers more likely to pay attention to the female and the society from the external socialized angle, and it is the inevitable direction of women who just break away from the shackles in the special times.Chapter 1, the unawareness of women's consciousness. The traditional society takes male as a center, and the fate of the female become a focus of the female writers' attention. The female writers have displayed the traditional society's destruction to feminine body and soul, women's destiny of being objectified, and the unawareness of women's self-consciousness under the traditional morals standard. Also, they write that the female are not as basic human existence from the aspects of the external social factor and the feminine themselves.Chapter 2, the awakening of female as person. The influences of every kind of ideological trend in May 4th movement, especially the slogans of "women's liberation", "gender equality" and so on, has awakened the unaware female. The writers have described the process of female from being inhuman to as person. One of the most important points is that women and men challenge the feudal marriage and family together. They need to get rid of the family's fetter, and pursue the freedom of love and marriage. This inevitably will bring conflicts with the family, writing the women's courage and contradiction in the conflicts. As the awakening women, female writers also pay attention to the social problems like male writers, and they write all kinds of the "question novels" which reflect the society and life, showing their distinctive sense of social responsibility.Chapter 3, the confusion after awakening. The female feel confused and perplexed after they revolt against the fathers' generations and have obtained the right to be a person. Love is no longer sacred, and women are more confused about love. There are not only the conflicts between social aspect and self aspect, but also the conflicts between motherly love and affection in women's pursuit of self-happiness. In addition, the female have gone out from the once spiritual union, begin to examine the original male allies. And this brings them bigger disappointment. The writers write out the real feminine survival and the emotions clearly.Chapter 4, the wives in the marriages. From the daughter of adolescent awakening to the women in marriages, their confusions and perplexities remain unchanged. Women are mentally and physically exhausted in the conflicts between family and career, the marital life is not good as imagined before. Some writers also use the calm style to discuss the ethical questions in the marital life.