Rebellious Patriarchy Over Regulating The Role Of Mother

The role of mother contains the cover of male power over female gender,which is a way of male power oppressing and harming women.Su Tong wrote a series of abnormal,distorted,greedy and vicious,philistine and vulgar "evil mother" images in the novel with a pioneering and rebellious attitude.Su Tong wrote these "evil mother" images in order to rebel against patriarchy and regulate women with the role of mother.Rebelling against patriarchy turned mother into a symbol without subject and self in the sequence of patriarchal culture.Facing the powerful male power,Su Tong can achieve the purpose of rebellion only by writing the image of "evil mother" in the way of over correction.On the one hand,Su Tong deliberately hides the goodwill in his mother’s human nature and amplifies the evil and ugliness in his mother’s human nature.On the other hand,Su Tong deliberately played down the role consciousness of the mother,transformed the mother’s motherhood into autocracy and control over the child,and turned maternal love into violence and ridicule against the child.Mother’s "evil" is the "evil" in nature,the display of human nature,the distortion and darkness hidden in the depths of mother’s soul,and the part deliberately covered and hidden by patriarchal culture.Su Tong’s writing on the darkness and ugliness of his mother’s human nature has uncovered the hypocrisy of patriarchy,fully restored his mother’s survival essence,and let his mother "emerge from the surface of history" with a human beings.The introduction mainly combs the research on the mother images in Su Tong’s novels at home and abroad,and introduces the reason and significance of the topic.The first chapter discusses the rebellion of Su Tong’s novel’s mother image against the traditional mother image.The mother images in Su Tong’s novels are divided into different levels: dissolving the "loving mother" : a perverted and distorted mother image;deconstructing the saintly mother: a greedy and vicious mother image;and subverting the virtuous mother: a selfish and despicable mother image.This chapter uses Su Tong’s novels as texts to organize and classify the mother images in Su Tong’s novels and analyze them in detail,explaining the different living conditions and spiritual outlook of different types of mother images.The second chapter mainly discusses the reason why the evil mother has become the main mother image in Su Tong’s novel.This chapter mainly discusses Su Tong’s writing purpose,literary pursuit and personal experience.Specifically,it is mainly discussed and explained from three perspectives: the excessive standardization of the role of mother by rebellious patriarchy,the need of avant-garde narration and the mapping of personal growth experience.The third chapter analyzes the significance of Su Tong’s novel’s "evil" mother image.Su Tong’s novel shows the true nature of a mother’s existence;it discusses that Su Tong explores the realistic way out of motherhood through his mother image,calling for a natural and healthy mother;Su Tong’s "evil mother" image completes the complement and transcendence of a single mother image under traditional culture.