Loss Of Virginity,Loss Of Voice And Loss Of Sanity

Among contemporary Taiwanese novels,feminist novels have a profound and wide-ranging influence."Madwomen" have been formed a gallery of female images with rich meanings,such as Mulberry,Yuqing Sao,Juanjuan,Lin Shi,and Fang Siqi.The images of the "Madwomen" are quite intriguing,since those women generally experience a developmental trajectory of losing virginity,voice and sanity.When facing the atrocities of body possession,the influence of the traditional view of chastity makes them feel guilty about their own flesh.Juanjuan and Fang Siqi’s traumatic memories of abuse make them lose the possibility of constructing subjectivity.Mulberry and Yuqing’s body "Sacrifice" and love illusion have both been proved to be castles in the air.The unspeakable silence is the precursor of women’s madness.No one speaks out,which disintegrates the reliability of women’s alliances such as the well-side space.Men and women are not absolutely binary opposition,but it is the common destiny of human nature under the feudal traditional force that eventually forms an undeniable patriarchy confined space.The disappearance of women’s right to speak is essentially the denial of their social identities.Also,the disappearance of body rights and speech rights has led women to go into a state of madness,which shows women’s escapism,resistance and rebirth of the mainstream social culture of patriarchy."Madwoman" is a particular expression of human nature and a return of primitive human nature to a certain degree.The writers intend to reconstruct the female context by creating the images of "Madwomen",and criticize the patriarchal authority with these extreme figures of madness.From a deep level,writers have their own tendencies.The writers who moved to Taiwan,such as Nie Hualing and Pai Hsien-yung use "madwomen" to symbolize the historical vicissitudes of family and country separation and cultural tearing.Li Ang and Lin Yihan,whose works rooted in Taiwan’s local social culture,produced a sensational social effect and became a literary phenomenon,aim to cause reflection on Taiwan’s social culture: Madness is a possibility under women’s situation.