Chinese Women Writers In The 20th Century "madwoman" Image

This paper systematically analysis the character of the "crazy woman "in the works of Chinese woman writer , and through selecting some typical ones of different periods, the author discuss many aspects of it , such as its' historical evolution process , the cause of "crazy", and the methods for solving it.With the social change of nearly a century , the crazy road of the "crazy women" shows a evolutionary process from tradition to modemation , which is not only the result of historical surroundings but also the self-arousal of woman, thus a step-up relation is developed. As a metaphor, after some phases of tracing and analyzing , we find that the women's crazy result from traditional literature of fatherhood in one side, it is the inevitable final when the women's reasonable requirement can't be satisfied in such a society where prevail the fatherhood thoughts; the other resource for it is the literary recalcitrance of women themselves which leads to the vanishing of women's self-conscious and humanity. At the same time, the absence of sex in the marriage is another important reason. After experiencing painful oppose, the crazy women try to look for the solving way continuously, some choose to escape or death, some flying in their heart despairingly, some convert to religion and god, whatever is not the true mental and soul home after all.It extends and enrich the "crazy woman" in men's works in one side, thus strategic connotation and meaning of anti-tradition literature. On the other hand, women writers have explored the self-save road for women, and brought forward the constructive method for acquainted women- self-assessment to find the real uncontrolled road for women literation .