On Female Consciousness From Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan And Li Rui's Works

Most domestic researchers focus on how to reconstruct contemporary mythology with the use of ancient myths resources, and how to evaluate the success and failure of rewriting the mythology so as to better interpret and explain the literary texts, such as the Chinese scholar, Ye Shuxian's article "How to reconstruct the mythology " and "On Reconsideration of Neo-Mysticism:the Tendency of Academic Absence in Reconstruction mythology in China" and so on. Although there exists some articles that interpret the image of the characters and its implications in the literary texts from gender perspective, it is merely a limited interpretations on the author's side. Therefore, to start discussion on female consciousness from male writers could fill in a gap in the field of mythology construction. Furthermore, this thesis intends to review the original living status of women by analyzing the mythological literary texts from the men's "others" perspective (that is contrary to women's own perspective). It concludes that only in the women' own perspective and men's "others" perspective, the female could break the inherent gender-bondage and to construct the ideal female identity.The paper is divided into four parts. The first chapter is a restatement on the globalization trends of the reconstruction of mythology. It contains two sections. It mainly introduces the background of the trend of reconstruction of mythology, including its causes, characteristics. It also analyses the inherent reason on the trend of the reconstruction of mythology in China. It aims at comparing the difference and similarities between China and other countries in the reconstruction of mythology and then laid a foundation for the following parts of the thesis.The second chapter is a restatement of specific chapters in the reconstruction of mythology. It is divided into three sections. The SectionⅠ-Bi Nu:the deity of the slave from Su Tong's perspective, it uses the new historic criticism and combines with textual analysis of critical theory. It concludes that Su Tong intends to demonstrate the spiritual absence of contemporary people by the legend of Mengjiang who was crying down the Great Wall. The SectionⅡ-Chang-E, the goddess of the moon. Ye Zhaoyan narrates from the heroin, Chang-E's multiple identities and then the author concludes that it is no doubt that female's crazy pursuit towards power results in the mutual injuries within the women. The SectionⅢ-Bai Suzhen:The Demon with human nature that Li Rui created with great effort. It utilizes the Foucault's theory of polyphony and text interpretation. That is to say, it re-display the story of Baisuzhen from the different perspectives of Qiubai, Fahai, Xuxian Parent. Finally, Bai Suzhen's female subjectivity has been realized by her continues pursuit for identity.The third chapter is the female mirror images from the Men's "Others" perspective. It intends to analyze from three levels. Section I focuses on Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan, Li Rui's different kind of vision toward women. It combines with the experience of three male writers and explore their Female Complex (that is the female preference of these men). The Section II mainly distinguish the female consciousness from three dimension:the life consciousness, the gender consciousness, the modern consciousness. It combines with the three novels of "Bi Nu","Hou Yi","Renjian " and concentrates on life consciousness, gender consciousness and subjectivity consciousness that are prominent in the three novels. It concludes that only the three kind of consciousness mentioned above integrates the modern consciousness reasonably, the construction of mythology can be achieved. SectionⅢ-The Construction of the ideal gender, it is the best choice to abandon the gender absence and the practice that is beyond one's ability of the women groups. It is an ideal model of construction of gender derived from the common characteristics of the humanity, that is to say, the prototype of Anima and the prototype of Animes could coexist hamouniously.The fourth chapter repeats the significance and value of the mythology from two aspects. It emphasizes the influence of restatement of the mythology for future generations, sorts out the history of the past restatement of the mythology and associates it with the current practice of restatement of the mythology of Su Tong, Ye Zhaoyan and Li Rui. Then it summarizes some universal rules for future generations to refer. This is one of the original intention of this thesis. On the other hand, this thesis also intends to seek for the female id based on the sources of mythology. The origin of life is the beginning of life and the breeding ground for future problems. Only we stick to the fundamentals, we can clarify our thoughts, understands the problem and then solve the problem.