The Study On Rural Female Leaving Home In New Period’s Novels

Since the new period, with the acceleration of urbanization, rural tradition and steady family patterns of “men and women weave cultivation” and self-sufficiency have suffered an unprecedented impact. Thereby, rural women who leave their hometown to cities to follow a dream have been leaving home female images with the time characteristics in bottom novels of new period of China.Why do rural women leave their homes to cities? In the new period, the reasons of the rural female’s running away can be roughly divided into two kinds. First, rural women leave home for inner emotional home, because they have dreamy expectations to the opposite sex. It belongs to the traditional “elopement” stereotypes. One is freewill running away after their self-consciousness awakens, the other one is helpless running away after suffer misfortunes. The former is voluntary act and can be regarded as a kind of resistance to patriarchy and authority of the husband; the latter is passive behavior and most of the rural women are not out of tragic fate. Second, rural women leave home for improving their leaving standards. There are huge gaps between urban and rural areas in not only material civilization but also in spiritual civilization. The rural is poor and backward while the urban is prosperous and civilized. These become a driving force for rural people living home to cities. In relatively conservative areas, women’s status is relatively low and they want to get a new life experience in cities.What is the living condition of the rural women who come to cites? Living in strange cities, rural women have difficulties to survive, however the city can provide them few ways to make a living. They cannot buy a place with their hand wok but low income. Some women want to settle down in a city by love or marriage. As a matter of fact, it is difficult for them to do that. In the cruel reality, the spirit of some rural women gets into a crisis: body is materialized and traditional rural good qualities begin to retreat.So, the city is not the ideal country of rural women. Where can they go? In the city they are marginal people, there are troubled by the lack of material and spiritual loneliness; in the village, traditional rural values has given them immoral label. It is also hard for them to adapt to the rural life. So they become homeless.It not only has literary significance, but also has social significance to explore the image of rural women’s survive predicament in novels and tragic fate and future direction, presents the creative subject of compassion and responsibility appeal.