Female Intellectuals’ Pursuit Of Utopia

Taking "the Utopian ideal of female intellectuals" as its supporting point and Chen Ruoxi’s life experience and works as its context, this thesis discusses the relevancy between her creation spirit and her personality spirit.The first chapter views her early works from the perspective of native complex, laying emphasis on the descriptions of survival struggle of the countrymen; of the relentless oppression comes from the destiny; of the suppression on countrymen, which is derived from patriarchy ideology and modern economy.The second chapter mainly mirrors the struggle and helplessness of people lived during the Cultural Revolution period, and applies theories of traumatic memory to analyze Chen Ruoxi’s recording truth of "the Cultural Revolution" as an intellectual after suffering from the disaster, presenting a disillusion process of the Red Utopia, which evolves from a"Blessed Land" to a "Neverland".The third chapter lays emphasis on her works created during her immigration period, and through Chen’s descriptions of the trivial life of overseas Chinese explores the family-country identity of exilic intellectuals and group portrait of intellectuals under multi-culture background.The fourth chapter takes as its blueprint Chen’s works written after coming back to Taiwan, She put forward the proposition of "where is women’s way out", discussing about issues on women and religion, which finally transformed from a kind of anxiety about "where is women’s home" to the sureness of "women’s home is everywhere".Chen never gives up her pursuit of Utopian ideal, and continuously probes into the subjects of family, marriage, race and belief; she develops an independent writing life, consummates her life through writing, and finally achieves her aim of "art for life’s sake".