There is a Chinese old folk story that one woman has a magic coat, and a man steals it when she I taking a shower, so that she has to stay on the mortal world being suffered and pressed. The woman, called Zhinu, accounts a representative of female pressed by the male ruler representative by Niulang, losing the security of protect and explored and insulted by the patriarchal society. Since the old time, female has tried to get this magic cloth back to escape from the hell and return to paradise. And women writers, who always taste the deep feelings and comfort the isolation and curiosity with their pens, is a relatively sensitive and vigilant group of them. Xiaohong(1911-1942) and Virginia Woolf(1882-1941), two great female writers, belong to
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In this book, class of peasants is suffering twofold oppression of classes and nation. Wangpo, the poor old woman, bore the pain very reluctantly to sale her horse into slaughterhouse for the money of horsehide. “just the little value of horse, the landlord takes it away from Wangpo”, Xiaohong writes. For the Japanese invaders burned, killed and looted wherever they went, and organized themselves into the puppet state of Manchukuo to make peasants intoxicated. After the death of her son in the battle of Counter-Japanese War, the Grandma Linghua hanged herself eventually for she was old but could not get raised by anyone. Tragedy also came to paralyzed Yueying. The lower part of her body becoming decayed, eyes and teeth turning green, Yueying suffered enough from disease. Hopelessly, Xiaohong felt the dark atmosphere of the destruction of people and their intending ignorance of death. Obviously, from this book, women was unspeakably oppressed by the opposite sex. Take more examples, when aunt Wu’s sister was giving birth to child, she was tortured by the severe pain which drove her anxious to jump into a hole or swallowed the rat poison to end this pain, which, in her case, is much more unbearable than the pain caused by the beating and abusing of
In this book, class of peasants is suffering twofold oppression of classes and nation. Wangpo, the poor old woman, bore the pain very reluctantly to sale her horse into slaughterhouse for the money of horsehide. “just the little value of horse, the landlord takes it away from Wangpo”, Xiaohong writes. For the Japanese invaders burned, killed and looted wherever they went, and organized themselves into the puppet state of Manchukuo to make peasants intoxicated. After the death of her son in the battle of Counter-Japanese War, the Grandma Linghua hanged herself eventually for she was old but could not get raised by anyone. Tragedy also came to paralyzed Yueying. The lower part of her body becoming decayed, eyes and teeth turning green, Yueying suffered enough from disease. Hopelessly, Xiaohong felt the dark atmosphere of the destruction of people and their intending ignorance of death. Obviously, from this book, women was unspeakably oppressed by the opposite sex. Take more examples, when aunt Wu’s sister was giving birth to child, she was tortured by the severe pain which drove her anxious to jump into a hole or swallowed the rat poison to end this pain, which, in her case, is much more unbearable than the pain caused by the beating and abusing of