From Silent To Sound

As a treasure house of world literature,ancient Greek mythology was used by many writers as the creative prototype for centuries.But the German female writer Christa Wolf in her works "Kassandra" and "Medea Stimmen" challengingly rewrote and reconstructed the original mythology.She believes that the truth of the myth is not the truth of history,but the truth below the patriarchal social system's record,while the real life of women has become a historical "blind spot".She wants to reconstruct a myth of women,the myth not only point to the history,but also the current reality."Voice" is a simple and complex abstraction,the "voices" in literary works are given a multilayer meaning: In the female literature,"voice" associated with gender politics;in the narratology,"voice" as a narrator different from the non-narrator,constitute a part of narrative "discourse".The feminist narratology holds the theory that it is unreasonable to separate the two "voice",for the narrative voice is the existence among the "social status and literary practice"(1),which reflects the conditions including social,economic and literature.Therefore,only by integrating both these two different meanings of "voice" can make a better voice of women's authority.Draw support from the mythology prototype Kassandra and Medea,Wolf takes her own "subjective authenticity" aesthetics as writing guidance,writes the change from Kassandra's "silent" to Medea's "soundly" upon feminist connotation and narrative structure.The first change of voice lies in the degree of awakening of the two female archetypes' awareness.Though Kassandra failed to make a voice,but she realized that "silent" is an important factor leading to female perennial tragedy fate;In the process of Medea's initiative fight,readers can clearly experience the patriarchal system's repression and exclusion to the independent women,and then thinking how to make the sound "exist".In dealing with the process and effect of this struggle,Wolf changed the narrative structures to give the readers a better aesthesis.In the narrative behavior of Kassandra go towards the execution ground,what the readers perceived is monologue and stream of consciousness narratives,all of which are silent thoughts;In contrast,the reconstruction of Medea formed dialogues in the polyphonic structure,so that the voice have meaning for "exist",for only let others aware of the existence of voice,then the voice can perform its functions and have the chance to obtain the authoritative discourse.Wolf's writing embodies the combination of literary structure and social meaning.Her "subjective authenticity" aesthetics focuses on the author's life experience and personal spirit,and incorporates the nuclear war,the social reality of Germany into the text.What were reflected by the reconstruction of mythology such as the opposition of gender,institutional opposition and cultural opposition are all transform into excellent samples for the analysis of feminist narratology.