A Modern Interpretation Of Abandon Stories

Abandon stories about marriage tragedy between irresponsible men and spoony women have much influence in china. Trace back from the development of abandon stories in Chinese Literature history, the image of abandoned women varies from complaining to angry, from angry to rageful, from rageful to revenging, which is a real reflection of ladies struggling under unequal oppression from society. It is a pity that all these so-called abandon stories are mainly created by male writers, comparatively, much fewer from female writers. The real shout from ladies is not heard until the arrival of Industrial Revolution which emancipated the productive forces and created employment opportunity to ladies helping them pursuit the power of discourse.This paper aims to make a comparative study of inheriting and developing of traditional mode of abandon stories in Korean novel Are You Still in Your Dream by Piao Wanxian and Chinese novel Workwoman by Bi Shumin. This article focuses on the different writing mode of Abandon stories in male's point of view and female's point of view, and different developing of Abandon stories in different political and cultural background, applying the methods of comparative literary parallel study and feminist literary criticism.Much research has been done about Chinese feminism and western feminism. However, not much comparative study on Chinese feminism and Korean feminism. Especially Piao Wanxu's Are You Still in Your Dream has no translation and there is few study has been done on this novelThe traditional image of abandon women are redefined by Piao Wanxu's Are You Still in Your Dream and Bi Shumin's Workwoman. The female characters show different types of resistance when they have abandoned by men. The comparative study of these two novels helps to analyze the impact generated by different social culture to the creating of abandon stories. The analysis is a path leading to the exploration for the common psychological needs of females in different social systems, which enables higher possibility of deeper understanding and better care towards females. The thesis tries to provide more readable theoretical evidence to Chinese readers for a better understanding when studying Korean feminine literature.