Research Of The Battered Image Of Women In Milan Kundera’s Novels

Milan Kundera’s novel writing earned him a worldwide reputation. His thinking of existence infiltrate into his novel, and coming out a series of Kundera’s distinct imagine of women. As a existence prospector, when shaping the image of women, Kundera emphasizing the possibilities of the women to survive in a difficult situation. In his novels, Battered is a summary on a overall female survival situation.Following this line of thought, focusing on Kundera’s description of the image of battered women living situation, do the text analysis, and further analyze the profound meaning of Kundera’s works, this article provide a new perspective to analyze the existence subject in Kundera’s novels. In this article, the battered image of women in Kundera’s novels is divided into two categories:The first category is voluntary battered, the second category is forced to battered.The chapter I is focus on discourse the image of voluntary battered women. In Kundera’s novels, the so-called "voluntary battered women", are imposed enormous pressure by their living condition, the environmental survival situation are too difficult to them, too heavy to them, so that they have no strength to revolt, they even don’t remember that they can try to revolt, the only thing they do is torpidly and negatively comply with the world, comply to men (their husband). The ’’voluntary battered women" can be divided into two kinds:the first kind is culturalized and influenced by the traditional concept. This kind of women can not find the balance point of their soul and their body, their soul is distinct from their body, the soul and body are in a endless bitter struggle all their life. The second kind of "voluntary battered women" is bounded by their own female identity. This kind of women can not see their own value as a female. Their life is men-centered, then can not find their own happiness. This article’s research concept is the women’s survival situation rather than remaining in feminist theories.The chapter II of this article primarily discussed several forced battered women image in the Kundera Novel. These women Image have been divided into three kinds:First kind, the women that get caught up in history; second kind, the women that lose herself in kitsch; third kind, the women that are suffering anguish in L’Idylle. Different from the voluntary battered women, the forced battered women are generated powerful spirit of revolt by themselves, and are always against themselves living condition and society and fate. But all these women that have the spirit of revolt would be feel serious confusion and pain in the history backgrounds, because of the whole world history and the political environment effect. It is imposable to live if these women move away from the world, so they only have one way that is to be compelled to suffer the living environment, which is hard to them. We can find out the further explore about women existence in Kundera’s novels, according to all these suffered women in his words. Kundera gets rid from a traditional woman identity bound, standing on the historical and political background, to research the existence of women through the whole human perspective.The chapter III discusses the Kundera’s unique writing and history significance of the image of battered women. In order to explore the existence, Kundera take his characteristic personal style of writing way: his novel characters are settled in a given specific circumstance which can reflect some kinds of possibility of human, instead of the real living condition; he keep a frim hand on his novel characters through his intervene writing way, which is different from the free development realism writing way. In Kundera’s novel, readers can focus more on the existence subject, to get more meanings of the existence of image of battered women in the novel. The image of women in Kundera’s novel occupied an unique position in literary history.In brief, this article tries to analyze the image of battered women in Kundera’s novels, to provide a new perspective to research the possibility of existence of women and human.