The Imprisoned “Crazy Women”
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.495How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Crazy woman, imprisoned, dilemma, Cao Qiqiao, Leng Qiuyue, Kim Ji-young
- Abstract
In literary works, there are always disharmonious characters beyond the satisfactory plot of a novel script. Among these characters, the female characters are the most prominent, especially the image of “crazy woman”. They are placed in different times, different scenes and different cultural backgrounds. They are either evil or mad, or sad and mean, or crazy, stupid and irritable. The mad woman in the attic, written by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Guba in 1979, is known as “the Bible of feminist literary criticism in the 20th century”. It analyzes the typical images of “mad woman” in western literary history, which is directly derived from Bertha, the ex-wife in the attic in Jane Eyre. This paper takes three female images in East Asian Literature: Cao Qiqiao in Zhang Ailing’s The Golden Chain, Leng Qiuyue in Chen Zhongshi’s White Deer Plain, and Kim Ji-young in Korean writer Zhao Nanzhu’s Kim Ji-young, Born 1982. The purpose of this paper is to explore why these “crazy women” are imprisoned, where they are imprisoned, why they cannot escape, and how to deal with themselves in different individual dilemmas by combining the specific text analysis and feminist theory. Through the analysis and comparison of the characters, the enlightenment in the current gender consciousness and gender environment is given.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Chenchen Zhao PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/17 TI - The Imprisoned “Crazy Women” BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 548 EP - 553 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.495 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.495 ID - Zhao2020 ER -