Realistic significance of female consciousness awakening

The Rose Gate is a typical successful female writing work, and it is a work that truly realizes the awakening of women. More importantly, as far as women's awareness is concerned, The Rose Gate is the first novel since the new period literature. This is the most important literary significance of The Rose Gate.

The Rose Gate was written in the late 1980s, ten years after the end of the Cultural Revolution. With the deepening of reform and opening up and the popularization of western feminist theory in China, women in China have a deeper understanding of their own gender. It is no longer a fantasy of "equality between men and women", but a deep exploration of women's thoughts and values, which is particularly obvious in Rose Gate.

Tie Ning sets the main story background of the novel as the Cultural Revolution, but it is obviously secondary to express the author's views on the Cultural Revolution in the book. Through the complicated historical background of the Cultural Revolution, the author tries to torture women's souls and explore women's consciousness at a deeper level, and this process is carried out from the perspective of no gender or beyond gender. As Tie Ning said in the preface, "I think it boils down to that I have been trying to get rid of the pure female vision when facing female themes. I am eager to get a two-way perspective or a third perspective, which helps me to grasp the real living conditions of women more accurately. "

Of course, the revelation of women's consciousness should mainly describe women, and also write about women's contradictions and conflicts. The novel mainly describes four female characters: grandmother Alice, daughter-in-law Zhu, granddaughter Su Mei and aunt and father. Reveal the female consciousness through the stories between these four people and themselves.

The narrative of Rose Gate takes the life of Wen Yao as the background, and describes the different experiences and complex mentality of three generations of women in this family. The novel does write the contest between women and seven lonely days, but the uniqueness of Rose Gate should not lie in this, because we have read the contest between women and seven lonely days in previous novels. What is important is that Tie Ning writes the inner contest between women's self, a socialized self and the true self. Since people call The Rose Gate wars of the roses, they will naturally pay attention to the female characters portrayed in the novel. Such as grandma's tattoo, daughter-in-law Zhu, granddaughter Su Mei and parents are all very distinctive female images.

Wen is undoubtedly an image that Tie Ning focuses most on, and also the most successful character in this novel. Some critics believe that this figure can be called Tie Ning's unique creation and contribution in the history of modern and contemporary literature. The connotation of this character is complex, because complexity provides a broad speech space. At first, critics only noticed the "evil" of Wen. Obviously, there are indeed many "evil" lines in the novel. For example, if you break into your father's bedroom naked, you will use incest to suppress his father-in-law's arrogance. For example, she deliberately set up a scene of "catching rape", exposing the ambiguous relationship between her daughter-in-law Zhu Xi and her neighbor's banner. Therefore, Wen Yao is regarded as a "distorted figure", or his life is summarized as a life of "chasing illusory honor", and "what he finally won is only a cheap self-victory". But as time went on, critics saw more from Yi Gi's tattoos. For example, the view of barren forest is more representative. She thinks: "Wen Yao's experience is not only a female experience from body to body, but also a relationship between women and society and body, in which she can identify herself.". Her story can be said to be thrilling. She always takes an active part and is unwilling to break away from specific historical scenes, specific historical events and specific political experiences. She is almost closely related to several historical stages in China, but she has never been a real hero in these historical stages. " There is no doubt that Tie Ning thoroughly tortured Yi Gi's Tattoos, questioning the existence and significance of women, and Yi Gi's life is the process of her constant awakening and struggle as a female consciousness. She has her own ideas, and she is eager to keep pace with the times. However, under the pressure of society, she kept giving in and compromising with society. Her love with Hua Zhiyuan, a revolutionary youth in middle school, made her eager to embark on the revolutionary road with Hua Zhiyuan. However, feudal family values and forces imprisoned her. Her parents married her to a banker, and she wanted to be a good wife of a banker, so she showed her ability from household chores and proved that she was not a lazy housewife, but a hostess who could manage a banker well. However, her husband's snub and her father-in-law's supercilious look have hit her again and again. When New China was founded, she immediately thought of a way to keep pace with the new society: "Stand out". She stood up and turned herself into a brand-new laborer, pasting cartons, locking buttonholes, smashing shoes, working as a nanny in the revolutionary leader's house and teaching children in primary schools. When the Cultural Revolution storm came, she "appeared from time to time" according to the situation, copied her home, handed in furniture and jewelry with great fanfare, read newspapers and sang model operas. She proved herself in this active catering way, but the ruthlessness of reality often ruthlessly destroyed her awakening consciousness.

This paper shows the tenacity and adaptability of female life genes. Although Wen Yao is tragic and weak in the face of a powerful society, her will to fight for her own survival is unshakable.