On Freedom In Marriage

To go with Chinese first Marriage Law around 1950, a number of writers focused their novels on the theme of the younger fighting for the freedom of love and marriage. This paper extracts sixty these novels and divides them into six narrative arrays with Bremond's narrative logical theory to reveal its underlying psychological ideology, that is torment and love, revolution and love, training and love, parents and love, cadres and love, to marry and to divorce.It holds that the significance of these novels is not in art and literature but in ideology. As the writers converse their ideas of modern marriage into popular narrative forms, it reflects or constructs a collective psychological value, that is love and marriage are not personal matters, but are of great political significance. Political factors has been very vital in the new marriage, however, as a new social ideology, it must be internalized into the aesthetic psychology of young people with the support of traditional psychology. So the writers'efforts to their initial imagination and constructing of modern marriage can be easily found in these novels such as the confliction, the depression and the integration between the old and new values.