On Women's Tragic Image During "The May 4～(th)" Movement

Generally, "The May 4th Movement "refers to the burst of patriotic movement on May 4th, 1919, But to the history of culture and literature, it means the New Cultural Movement and literature Revolution which was marked by the slogan of democracy and the science with the foundation of New Youth in 1915 and the slogan of literature innovation and literature revolution at the beginning of 1919. the New Cultural Movement completely refuted the ideal frame If traditional politics, culture, morality and value , which shook the thousands of years' foundation of Chinese feudalism and preluded the Chinese traditional society to modern one .In those literature governed by men always occupied chief position and everything was designed for make. The Movement of illuminating idea derived form New Cultural Movement brought new energy for Chinese society as well as chances for the development of Chinese literature. Nemerous remarkable women characters were produced in literature and they had features in common, that was, most of them suffered much from living setting with extreme hardship and contradiction, and ended their lives with tragedy. But men and women writers employed different ideas and ways to create these women's tragic images. In detail, compared with the male literature at the beginning of New literature, the women works had more hints or tracks of love and gentleness and culture than female writers and they could deal with the characters in their works very calmly and rationally, while female writers had certain perceptual excitement on their mind and psychology not very long and they were very weak on psychology, when they wereconfronted with the realistic contradiction, they always revealed their self-emotion, as a result, their works formed naturally a kind of plaintive and gentle style.By analyzing the women's tragic images during "The May 4th movement ", we could understand the reasons why their fates were so miserable, firstly, women lacked economic independence and had to obey and depend on men. secondly, women lived in a society where they were discriminated against and men ruled all. Now days, the social economic basis, political law and the idea of value and morality has changed a lot, but the tragedies of women haven't ended at all, which just appears in another way. women in china in 1990s weren't liberated in a true sense .their situation got even worse than ever and women became playthings of men economic society .facing such awkward situation of women ,it was the obligation of women literature that was to exploit and reflect the spiritual state and the suffering living setting in which women were consumed and played by men and attached to men .Also women literature should seek the valuable status and spiritual equality that women themselves have been persuing.