Male Castration And Cultural Metaphor In Modern Chinese And Western Literature

All the time, men are thought the strong in the social life, they are the maincontributions to the social and economic development, and heads of households. Inliterary,writers tend to describe men as someone who have great physical strengthand courage, valiant and heroic in bearing male mold. But in the modern male imagein Western and Chinese literature began to blur. They might be described asphysiological sexual incompetent or depicted as lack of masculinity. The change ofmale images in literature and on the male image of intentional castration of thissituation is not accidental, but has deep cultural roots.This paper aims to study on male castration phenomenon in modern western andChinese literature. Male castration literature can be divided into three categories: themale castration of male physiological, psychological castration in males andtemperament of castration.This paper focuses on the origin of modern Chinese andWestern male castration literature, male castration literary metaphor and Chinese andwestern different ownership of male castration literature In the roots of modernChinese and Western male castration literature aspect, Castration literature has s therealistic conditions and profound theoretical root. From the modern perspective ofmetaphor in Western male castration literature view. To sum up the damage toindustry and city civilization metaphor, this paper mainly discusses the malecastration, feminist rise of metaphor, war metaphor and the destructive to politicalmovement terrorist metaphor.Finally, although the modern western literature have male castrationphenomenon of massive, but because both sides of the literature development has thecontext and rules of their own, so the male castration literature is essentially belong tothe different literary tradition. Chinese male castrated literature is a kind of Chinesetraditional disease metaphor in literature. While the Western male castration literatureis still belongs the continuation of the humanism literature...