The Distant Correspondances

It has been pointed out in the seventeenth congress report that "culture has been becoming important source of national cohesion and creativity and a vital factor of competition in overall national strength" and has emphasized "rise of new climax of socialistic culture construction". Literature, a special form of aesthetics and edification, is "maternal plant" of other arts, whose development and prosperity have directly promoted the development and prosperity of culture. The settings (Tang Dynasty in China history and Renaissance period in British history) chosen in this thesis, both are highlights of development and prosperity in East and West culture. Analysis of reasons for universality has been provided by the thesis, which is a great help for arousing reflection on cultural development and prosperity in socialistic new period.Women cause and women work have been repeatedly mentioned in the seventeenth congress report, which is a reflection of high attention to promotion of women cause, gender harmony and gender equality by central party committee. This research has focused on new image of female group in cultural development and prosperity period and phenomena of progressive female description by male writers. Through textual analyses and background research, this thesis is aimed at exposing hidden and implied relations between social development and female development, social development and literature prosperity.Through research, we find that although there are so many achievements in the study on Tang legend and Shakespeare's comedy, they haven't focused on the image of women, and the results from this aspect is very few. And there is no works or papers of parallel study on the heroine of The Tang Legend and Shakespeare's comedy until now. This paper, mainly from the perspective of parallel study, recurring to the critical method of the image of women in the feministic criticism, analyzes the standpoints of feministic writing in Tang Legend and Shakespeare's comedy. It also takes influence studies into account, as well as text background of the Tang Legend and Shakespeare's comedy to compare the similarities and differences in the standpoints of feministic writing shown in the text. Through such an analysis and comparison, the paper tries to dig out the necessary relationship implied between text and social, literary and social development, and female and literature.There is correspondence of the standpoints of feministic writing between the Tang Legend and Shakespeare's comedy. The standpoints of feministic writing in Tang Legend are shown mainly as the awakenings of women's individual consciousness, the opposition to asceticism and the demand for free expression of love and sex.The standpoints of feministic writing in Shakespeare's comedy are revealed through his "utopian mistresses". Those female geniuses take charge of the "utopian" society without exploitation or oppression but full mercy and love, so bring the society prosperousness and harmony. Shakespeare also made a reversal to the traditional aesthetic concepts. He highlighted the wisdom of women with a new perspective in which he believed that wisdom was a basic component of female nature.Also the Tang Legend is in line with Shakespeare's comedy in terms of writing background: they are created in the new social background impacting concepts of women. Changes in the concept of women and enhancement of women's political rights have had an impact on literature and have raised the expressing awareness for the females to a considerable degree.The theme of the Tang Legend corresponds closely to that of Shakespeare's comedy: they both include the specialized theme reflecting love and marriage; the Tang legend and Shakespeare's comedy shape women who have clear bisexual temperament and portray subverted and vilified men.