Comparison Between Emily Bronte And Eileen Chang’s "Naturalism" Style

Emily and Eileen Chang respectively are women writers with unique style in British and modern Chinese literature history.Emily was born in the Victorian era.Her father was a priest.And Eileen Chang was born in the declining aristocratic family. In their life, Emily lost love ones in succession, while Eileen Chang escaped from the family because of lacking of the warmth from it. The negativity toward their families and the frustration of their love ones or themselves made they precociously pondered life questions concerning death, love and so on. Consequently, they developed a pessimistic attitude.Emily didn’t advance any theory. However, the text is obviously indicative of the tendency of "naturalism". Although Eileen Chang’s literacy and art thoughts didn’t be risen to the height of theory, her artistic ideas and literacy creation and practice mentally were corresponded to the tendency of "naturalism" in the Emily’s work.In the term of "narrative naturalism",both Emily and Eileen Chang used inner-focusing narration to guarantee the objectivity of narrative discourse, and applied free indirect discourse to break the boundaries between the voice of the narrators and the interior monologue of characters in the texts. Compared with the narrative discourse intervention showing up occasionally in the Wuthering Heights,the voice of narrators is more concealed and implicit in The Golden Cangue.With regard to "characteristic naturalism", Emily and Eileen Chang’s life experience had become an essential part of their works. They utilized the irrational characteristic of human beings, namely.crazy to represent animality of the personality of characters. And they described characters’state of alienation after being pressed by environment and tempted by material goods. Nevertheless, Eileen Chang’s works went further than that of Emily.