Female Images In Cui Renxun 's Early Novels

Cui Renxun, Korean novelist, literary critic, dramatist, won the DongIn literary prize (1966), Korean drama and Movie Art Award (1977), Yi Shan literature prize (1884) and a number of awards. In 1959, Cui Renxun published< Gray Club story> and< Raoul> on the literature magazine, entered the literary world. In 1960, he published the novel< Square>, began to emerge in the literary world, and as a controversial writer, he was under the literary world of many people’s attention, the<North Korea issue> Magazine selected Cui Renxun as the ten South Korean representative, has a significant role not only in the history of Korean literature, but also it is very striking in foreign literary circles, his novel< Square> has been translated into in English, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Chinese,< Gray person> has been translated into Chinese, and welcomed by Chinese.Cui Renxun’s novels, mostly in the form of essays of the protagonist’s inner monologue, experimental novels, largely broke the limitation of the form of the novel. His novels to the Korean War after the Korean society as the background, the hero is mostly depressed intellectuals and their essence of history, that time national reality, social conflicts and other topics for reflection and exploration. At present, Cui Renxun and his works has gained much attention and research, but the research on female image in his novels are rare. The female images in Cui Renxun’s novels not only explains the status of women in South Korea has just started to enter the era of capitalism and industrialization. It also explains the female image in the eyes of male intellectuals.After most of South Korea from the Japanese imperialist rule Cui Renxun’s liberation, until the end of the civil war in the Korean Peninsula as the background of creation. This period is South Korea, two countries the social chaos, the most turbulent period, this period is also the sense of opposition is the most acute period, people need to choose to live in South Korea, North Korea, neutral in choosing a place to live, regardless of where to go, in fact there is no freedom at all. This period is more intellectual, no place to display their ambition, since they could not find the book of comfort and comfort, then the women around them has played a significant role. On the other hand, at this time in Korean society, gender equality and sovereignty is still in a delicate system. South Korea 50,60 is the age of Confucian culture in the patriarchal system began to disintegrate and melt to capitalist cultural system of the period. during this period, South Korea’s women’s movement gradually began to perk up, also began to have women writers began writing criticism of female novels in Korean society male chauvinism, but now, Korean male writers of the female image, no too much research. Cui Renxun works of fiction mostly describes the life of men and daily, women rarely mentioned, called the Korean men talk about the essentiality.Therefore, this paper to the male protagonist in the novel treat women’s attitudes and the image of women as a starting point to investigate the situation of the female characters and their in the lives of men to play a role. So we can draw a conclusion that the female consciousness Cui Renxun writer. During this period, men know knowledge molecules in the image of women.This paper is divided into four parts to elaborate.The first part is the introduction, which describes the research purpose and significance of the thesis. It summarizes the previous research results of the female characters in the novel, and shows the research methods and scope.The second part mainly analyzes the living situation of women Cui Renxun in early novels. Throughout the paper to Cui Renxun in 1959 to 1969:< Gray Club story>,< Mask>,< Square>,< Jiuyunmeng>,< Jehol diary>,< Grey person> < Journey to the West> and so on work as the object of study, female image analysis.This chapter is divided into three sections, the first section of novel types of female were analyzed. The female characters in his works can be from their character, level of education, professional point of view, divided into two categories. A kind of gentle, simple, and submissive women; another kind of rhinoceros, capricious, self-awareness of women. And these women are not college students. To be a painter, or ballet.The second section analyzes the hero of the women showed the same tendency. They like and sharp, fickle, self-awareness of women chat, the occupation of these female characters are students or a painter, but the hero will eventually choose gentle, simple, and submissive women, and has characteristics of these women are generally the National Ballet, male characters always in them in search of maternal feeling, feeling experience of love and they always remember female characters of a visual and olfactory characteristics.The relationship between women and some level of brand of novels. Cui Renxun show possession of women in the third quarter with a male sovereign doctrine and feminist criticism theories, and points out that the male sovereignty under the situation of women. The male protagonist is always the women said as the cattle or goods, they have a kind of possessive desire, from the body and spirit are trying to women. The male characters of female sexual oppression, in the idea is to let women have to obey them have been engraved on the intellectuals of the novel, and his novels are autobiographical elements. This section is conect knowledge with women together, analysis of the male protagonist is how to treat the knowledge.To sum up, through the analysis of the first chapter can see this era of men, especially male intellectuals tend to prefer a more obedient female, female embodiment of motherly love. And they don’t like to let women near the knowledge. During this period, the South Korean men, still did not cast off male chauvinism, even educated, educated youth culture will still women have a strong possessive, while women still in that dirty, enough to equal social status.The third mainly uses feminist image criticism theory, analysis of the female image and women embodied in the study to the positive effect and negative effect. This chapter is divided into three sections, respectively on the women of three images of the detailed analysis.The first section, breakthroughs the motherhood as the point, analyzes the women mother characteristics. Male to female always have a manifestation of the Oedipus complex, in square this novel, the heroine satisfies this desire of the hero, the hero can from his lover get lost to maternal love, the heroine in the hero’s frustrated when gave him caring mother.In the second section, the salvation of the soul as the theme, analysis of the helpless men in knowledge, women give his help. Cui Renxun the hero as a youth, in the face of life confused, always think from the "book" is the knowledge to get saved. They at that time political the unrest, the first thought is to display their digestion by reading to ambition, but they found in books cannot be comforted, and only to find lovers love, care can be saved. The female characters in the novel is played such a role, the hero in the lonely, helpless. To lose confidence in life gave them strength, guide them a direction.In the third section, to panic as the theme, analysis of women make men feel uncomfortable side. Cui Renxun early in the novel, not all of the female characters are is obedience to the image, they will let the men feel restless and terror. Whenever women refused to male requirements, female male gaze when, men always feel panic and unrest, while men don’t let women access to knowledge, it is out of fear of women than his heart.In conclusion, we can see women will become men frustrated when a caring and guide, but sometimes let the men feel fear, that is, the role of women has two sides.The last part is the conclusion of Cui Renxun pen female image value and shortcomings of the summary, to re-examine the ideological value of Cui Renxun and novel, and the deficiencies and hope for the future research directions were introduced.