The "Nu Wa" Prototype In The Novels Of The 1990s

Nvwa is the goddess in Chinese legends.To this day,there are still many tales about Nvwa. For example,She created human beings and repaired the sky. Over a vast span of time,collective unconscious about Nvwa formed.It has an important impact on female images in literature.And it is continuous and profound.In the late eighty’s,the female family novels appeared,such as “pain and touching”.By the 1990’s, female consciousness is further liberated.There are many novels under the influence of antetype of Nvwa,such as XuKun’s“Nvwa”,YueHengshou’s“The soul of Nvwa”. These imagines can be separated into distinct parts,traditional imagines,distorted and horrible imagines so on.Infact,it has been a kind of literature phenomenon. And it has a profound and far reaching significance for survival situation about women in 1990’s.Besides,we can know female imagines through it better. It should be cared. The mythos- archetypical criticism gives us new insights into the nature of literature and mythology.It is revealed that myths had been a collective memory.There is an inextricable connection between the past and the present.This article is based on the mythos- archetypical criticism.According to illustrating1990’s female imagines in novels,I hope that I can illustrate the special literature phenomenon very well.