摘要:Kingston represents those women who are at the “double marginality”(常芳,郭海霞,2001:3) of racism and patriarchy. She is a woman and she is not a white in America. It is bound for her to suffer the racial and sex prejudice. The oriental woman is always a myth to the west, and her image is created as somehow called “little eastern woman”.
an come true. For Kingston, enjoy life means to have a positive attitude of life, to persevere in an effort means to have the dynamic force to advance, to study hard means to train well and never stop means to create our own future. Brave Orchid lived in the traditional Chinese culture, she got a deeply influence by Chinese traditional culture. But she break through the traditional idea’s bondage and imprison, never be lonely, enjoy her life, persevere in an effort, hard study, never stop, make her life goal come true, retogether with her husband after a long journey, created an happy life by her own hands.
Brave Orchid break through several force of resistance, always persevere, those behavior gave courage to Kingston to beat difficulties down, become the dynamic force to make she wrote story and become successful. The woman warrior’s behaviors of Brave Orchid and the feminism in them inspired the female Chinese Americans to struggle and make their dream come true.
3.4 Feminism in At the Western Palace
The fourth part of “The Woman Warrior” is “At the Western Palace”. The story is about when Moon Orchid’s husband goes abroad; she stayed at home and brought up their children. With her sister’s help, she came to America, and found her husband remarried. She felt very sad but can’t do anything; she can’t struggle for her own right, let husband goes back to her. She felt anger and disappointment but only she can do was to keep them secretly in her heart and she also can’t adopt American life. Finally, she lost her mind and died in the lunatic asylum. “The Queen of Eastern Palace” can’t win “the Queen of Western” and call her husband back.
Kingston created Moon Orchid’s dutiful wife and loving mother image which was follow the feudal society’s morals, scrupulously abide by the women’s basic morals, weak, lack of the struggle conscious and spirit of fighting. Moon Orchid came to America to found her husband, and saw her husband had another wife. This weak, lack of resistant and struggle spirit woman didn’t fight for her right and created her own life. She couldn’t adopt American life and lack of fighting spirit and courage of optimistic life, full of inferiority and kept her anger and pain inside. In this occasion, Moon Orchid’s tragedy was necessity. Moon Orchid is another victim under the moral of feudal society. Moon Orchid’s tragedy showed that Kingston’s feminism strongly opposed the feudal society’s moral, female should have the conscious of struggle and the spirit of fighting, female should be self-support, self-respect and self-improvement.
It is a distinctive contrast between Moon Orchid’s tragedy and Brave Orchid’s happy life which is created by herself. It is to show that self-support, self-respect and self-improvement are the basic and premise of female to create her own happy life, to have her own business and to make her dream come true. Meanwhile, self-inferiority, weak and despair are the origin of female tragedy. So, the success of Brave Orchid and the tragedy of Moon Orchid contained Kingston’s feminism that female should be self-support, self-respect and self-improvement. This feminism is the dynamic force in Kingston’s life and mode great success in her creation.
3.5 Feminism in A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe
The last chapter of The Woman Warrior told a story of Ts’ai Yen: “After lived 18 years in Hun, she was ransomed… She took the songs from Hun, one of the
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