浅析张爱玲小说中的女性悲剧(英文翻译版)

Analyses of the female tragedy in zhang ailing's novel

abstract :Zhang ailing is the characteristic and successful woman in the history of Chinese modern literature.In the most of zhang ailing's fictions，tragedy is always the theme of them,especially the tragedy of females.so “desolate” is considered as the impression of Zhang’s fictions. Mainly from the following several aspects to explore Zhang ailing’s female tragedy in this article :first one is the women's tragedy ruled by patriarchal society under the background of feudal system.The second is the female tragedy caused by materialistic inflation.The third is the female tragedy caused by the repression and loss of the basic desire as human being.The forth is the female tragedy come from their own character flaws.

Key words: Zhang ailing, fiction, female, tragedy

The introduction

Zhang ailing is a rarity in the 40’s Shanghai occupied areas and she got famous in the war years,which made Zhang ailing's creation full of desolate feeling from the start. Besides of the declined feudal family origins and family life of girls' generation without love , taking more care of the tragedy of women themselves become a eternal topic in her works. But when she’s writing novels, Zhang ailing often paid sympathetic attention to their women's tragedy, but there are many causes of the female tragedy. Probably they can be divided into these:1. the women's tragedy ruled by patriarchal society under the background of feudal system.2. the female tragedy caused by materialistic inflation.3. the female tragedy caused by the repression and loss of the basic desire as human being.4. the female tragedy come from their own character flaws.

First . The muzzle of the feudal and patriarchal society

In Zhang ailing's writings, women occupy the vast majority of them. But they’re different from some contemporary female writers’s extreme narrative which are lack of male being on the scene. When She built female image,she usually developed it from a marriage life. So the relationship has become a window of the world of women. For the most of females,there’s no pity in her whole life if she has a Deep-rooted of love,no matter what the end is. But in the real marriage life, women’s mourning tend to be that the women act as the subservient to men in Zhang ailing's writings. Such as Bai liusu in "love of city".Bai liusu’s ending seemed not so miserable, at least she achieved her aid and had a real marriage life.She had the security in every aspects, but she still didn’t escape from the patriarchal bondage. In the patriarchal society, the inevitable destiny of female is far away from the happiness of life and the colorful world and taste the innate sorrow herself.

Second. The expansion of the material

In the age of Zhang ailing, Capitalist civilization lighted up the Chinese society, while the traditional feudal civilization was still entrenched. On the intersection of Chinese and western culture, she analysed the material civilization of capitalism by the deep vision. As the new