Theory Explanation Of The Body Metaphor And Significance Gender Criticism On "Tuccia's Sieve"

In the mid-20th Century,"Body"which regarded as the Carrier and Places of gender politics and gender culture by feminists in Britain, the United States and France gradually highlighted in the Feminist Theory and Women's literature research. Nowadays, global consumer culture and science and technology has been rapid developed, body receives more and more attention, it gradually become public discourse and a new concerning area of in the Academic. This article from the standpoint of gender criticism, take the western religious myth story"Tuccia's sieve"as an example, to analyze the cultural connotation of Metaphor of the sieve of the female body. The author will compare the state of imprisoned and regulation training of the female body with contemporary feminism breakout from body, unveiling the change of female body from aesthetic object to subject, discussing significance of body of female return to subject.Tuccia who accused of breaching the oath of chastity was a virgin of God Vesta in ancient Rome Kitchen. Sieve as a tool for her to scrub the false accusations. It is a magical sieve with regular holes but full of water, which symbolizes the power of female chastity. The link between an integral of container and a virginal and integral body is rooted from in the traditional culture contact of virtual and evil, solid and kind.Metaphor of the Sieve is female body containing a religious, moral and cultural connotation. As an abstinence body, it catered to the teachings of Christian theology and became a symbol of Christian art. For natural physical sense was restricted by social physical, physical experience must be under moral constraints. But identity of Vista Virgin endows the power to the natural body which basing on the physical was given the meaning of culture.The body metaphors of"Tuccia's sieves"have profound connotations in theory. In the field of Aesthetic, the female body has its own characteristics, which has been portrayed as the theme in literature and art, however, this body is a passive object. In the field of a strong male Discourse aesthetic ideology, the female body has been metonymies, shelter or exposure, existing as the desire of male's aesthetic objects all the time. Gender inequality is in the visual culture of see and being seen .The spectators are in the advantageous position, and the ones seen are always the object of silence. The two are not the relationship of mutually subject, but one with the advantage of"see"can completely control the other in visual. At this time, the female body is regarded as the object to be displayed and peeped. The behavior of seeing has a complex and implied ideology meaning; it determines what and how to look, thus formatting universal understanding ways. Seeing in the way of a covert status or the way people naturally think. Gender studies believe that all metaphors on female body are discipline and punishment for it. Female body needs a hard shell in its appearance, as it is soft and easily defeated or leaked, which means it can't resist the desire and temptation of outside world. The female body was unfettered and unrestrained at first, but it lost initial enthusiasm and desire in the long history of bearing a heavy yoke time after time. The various powers from the society focus on the body and conduct it carefully. Female body was more vulnerable heavy load, which strengthened seemingly incontrovertible persuasion of female temperament in delicateness and obedience. Body was objectified in the process of training; while women took the social and cultural requirements as a self-monitoring, thus the body became docile. Metaphor and symbol of the female body in Myth reflect collective unconscious and gender hierarchy in people's hearts in thousands of years; these images which rooting from worship, fancy and fear of men to women are according with cultural Imagination of the male culture to female. The former placed people's wishes and dreams by regarding metaphor of female as large and magical things. The latter suppressed the desire and image of women by derogating the physical of women, belittling idiosyncrasy of female body. Body metaphor is the largest Ontology Metaphor. Our understanding on things is from our awareness of our body, because body teaches the way we thought. Take body as a container, then resulted a metaphor in physical container."Sieve"as a containers metaphor, although it has a similarity with the female body, the metaphor created the similarity and fixed the link between the two. Body metaphor as a general understanding way, through the metaphor repeated images to show awareness and prejudice to women building by people.In gender criticism, Physical metaphor is an important target in criticism of text. Metaphor of female body bared too many historical and cultural constraints in patriarchal society; body under veil of the Metaphor is increasingly humble. With the re-interpretation of female body Metaphor, feminists identified significance implied in sex political and cultural which including in the text of the recurring images and prototypes, then updating the understanding of the text. Compared with Tuccia's imprisoned body, Feminists stand in the opposite side, affirming the strength of physical body and describing body which is an object and main part now in the article to capture the voice right of body. Physical metaphor reflecting traditional gender bias which placing female body in male / female dualistic model, then laid women in disadvantaged and vulnerable side to highlight the superiority of men .Gender criticism intents to break through the dual mode between men and women, restoring the original features of the body, So the obscure body will be returned to true state, and strive for women's right and return of the main location.