A Comparative Study For Feminist Writing Of Virginia Woolf And Zhang Ai-ling

Virginia Woolf as important female writer in English literature, is a pioneer of the feminist movement,Woolf in her works focus on women’s issues,In shaping the process of various characters to show social status gap between the sexes, and tries to seek a new kind of relationship, women were admitted, with freedom and voice, she use her works to show women’s unique value, tell the world that womenin the patriarchal society should also deserve respect and social status.Eileen chang,the history of Chinese modern literature important female writer, zhang ailing has experienced a war and social unrest, her unique life experience and the feeling of life, make her really understand women’s survival situation in modern society, it analyze the relationship in the novel and urban found strong modernity and zhang ailing, with its unique female perspective, through the works to show the value of women, discover personal hidden inner earnestly, tightly close to the real life, the development of Chinese female literature has an irreplaceable effect.The two women writer living in different social environment, yet its creation have similarities, they both have a strong female consciousness, in the work to change society as the background of the story, and thus more real to show people survival status of women at that time, called on women not only to be aware of their social value, but also bravely stand up and make their voices heard, have the courage to live independently and ability;They created a series of female images;Two writers by weakening the male image in his works show people all men is no longer thepeople hero image, and highlights the male is just an ordinary person, what they enjoy the rights and obligations is not, women should show their own unique value, get rid of the dependence on men, looking for a way to belong to own independent;Facing the society full of the flavor of decline before and after the war, however, their anguish, they put forward the social problems in the work, and to reveal the root causes of it, but leave the answer to solve the problem for people to think that they themselves as member of the social unrest, has also had a depressed mood wanders, and in their works, and showed a strong consciousness of death and loneliness.Woolf and Eileen chang’s female writer, as at the beginning of the 20 th century in the feminist creation in the process of both to criticism of social reality, through her creation to show dissatisfaction and disappointment of social reality. Though there are difference between their works,they had a profound impact on the development of female literature.This will with the theory and method of comparative literature and contemporary western literary theory as theoretical guidance, mainly adopt the method of parallel research, Woolf and Eileen chang’s feminist writing a comparative study, comparing the two women writers in the context of east and west two cultures as well as the similarities and differences of feminist writing, so as to explore the law of development of female literature before and after world war ii.