Rebellion And Convert

Maternity is a lofty, great word. Domestic and foreign literature from old era to today has almost all described the maternity with praise and laud. However, the loftiness of the maternity is disintegrated in the writings of woman writers of the after-new period, which indicates that the woman writers present with an idea of "anti-maternity". Mother is not the kind, broadminded and unselfish image any more, but the ugly, abnormal and twisted one. The parenthood between the mother and daughter is not harmonious, but straining and opposing. When the daughter turns into mother, she fears, even flees from the character of mother, showing her deep dread for the duty of bearing. Furthermore, in the text of these woman writers, with the co-existing of anti-maternity, they have expressed their search for the motherhood. They figure the wicked mother as well as they shape the traditional mother image. They are tracking for the motherhood at the time they are losing it. Their original sense of maternity is stealthily increasing. This odd phenomenon originates from the graceful envision and aspiration for the great maternity in the mind of these woman writers, and woman has a maternity nature. The "anti-maternity" should be caused by various reasons. This article has searched the reasons from two aspects. From the angle of literature itself, it includes the context and the internal influence.From the angle of things beyond the literature, it includes the extra influence of trend of thoughts and the writers themselves. The disintegration of "the loftiness of maternity" presents us the multiformity, variability and complexity. Meanwhile, this kind of writing challenges the "worship for maternity" in Chinese culture. It breaks the man's aesthetic rules. It shapes the mother as the real person and makes the appreciation of the ugly another kind of aesthetic style and features.