The Research Of The Mistress Image In The Trilogy

Wen Xi's trilogy — Wild Orchids,Begonia and Poppy were very sensational when they were first published in the 1990 s,which caused a hot discussion in the novel critics.Later,due to the sensitivity of the topic,Poppy was banned for a period of time.Wen Xi also left Shenzhen and terminated the literary creation.Few commentators studied her works.Wen Xi has become a marginalized writer because of the mistress image,and the trilogy has also become a marginalized work.I attempt to explore the value of the trilogy being buried,and also appeal to the academic community to pay attention to marginalized writers,works and characters.The first chapter discuss the images of the mistresses in Fufengge and their root cause.The trilogy is about the stories of the mistress group living and struggling in Shenhai(Shenzhen pseudonym)special economic zone.The various mistress images constitute the special female illustrations of the special zone together.There are three types of mistresses in Wen Xi's works: the sympathetic women born for love,the modern witches for desire,and the struggling women who are confused.The first type of mistress has pure love characteristics,the second type is full of lust and their humanity is annihilated,and the third type is between the former two,constantly struggling between material desire and true feelings.The reason why these deep-seated outsiders become mistresses have many roots behind them.From a male perspective,factors such as the siege of marriage,the extremely competitive environment and the need to maintain one's own masculinity have created a dual need for both the physical and psychological needs of the mistress.For women,as a vulnerable group in Shenhai,they hope that they can use the power of men to obtain material support and spiritual and physical comfort.As the supply of mistresses,both the men and women in Shenhai have a strong will,and they are all infected with the open environment and new concepts of materialism and new heroism in the special zone.Shenhai has become the first area in China where the phenomenon of mistresses intensively occured.The second chapter discuss the external social environment and internal psychological state of the mistresses in Shenhai.The external environment in which the mistresses live — Shenhai,is both heaven and hell.As a special economic zone,there is no need to say a lot about its booming development,but there are also many chaos behind the prosperity—the trap of the new economic situation made people fall into the abyss of mercenary;the old ideas of feudalism and superstition made this new city hidden in antiquated atmosphere imprison thoughts of the indigenous and outsiders;uncoordinated material and spiritual development made the soul of the people in Shenhai extremely empty and lost.Living in such an environment,the internal psychological state of the mistresses is also very complicated and tangled.They have nostalgia for their hometowns originally,but they are disappointed again and again;they have longed for Shenhai but lack of a true sense of belonging;they have finally become the superfluous women who have no destination.As women in the frontier SAR,the female consciousness born in the new era begins budding in their hearts.However,they can't control their behavior with reason,they are still adding to the tall building of the patriarchal society.As a special heterogeneous group,they have mutual support,competition and even disdain.Such a complicated external living environment and contradictory internal psychological state have created the mistress group of Shenhai struggling to survive.No one can find a way out of self-salvation,and no one can escape the tragic life.Finally,they all grow old in the anxiety of courtship,destroyed under the temptation of material desire.The third chapter discuss the value of the theme of "Mistress".The theme of mistress reflected in the trilogy has multiple value.First of all,Wen Xi abandoned the prejudice of public opinion,centering on the mistress group and placing them in the chaotic and complicated social background.Wen Xi is undoubtedly the pioneer of the mistress theme,and the betrayer of the "private space" of women literature in the 1990 s.Secondly,the trilogy conveys the values and living conditions criticized by the author through the tragic life of Shenhai's mistresses.At the same time,the books try to explore how do urban women adapt to the city,obtain happiness and realize self-worth with the unique characteristics of pure love and maternal strength.Finally,Wen Xi uses the stories of Shenhai's mistresses to map out the reality of spiritual loss in the entire special economic zone and even the entire social materialization space,to open up the ugly picture of materialism behind the SAR,and to appeal to readers "never forget your first heart,you can always be" through the characters in the novels.And then the spiritual ark lifted in the sea of matter can be stable and far-reaching.In a manner of speaking,with her own unique aesthetic discovery,Wen Xi has penetrated the essence of the special economic zone and the essence of the era's history.Through the perception of the images of the mistresses,the psychological shackles,survival predicament and pain of life of the heterogeneous women in the special zone have been presented.The trilogy has a distinct era and profound sociality,which is very worthy of our exploration and excavation.