As the title suggests, discuss and compare the two books Madame Bovary and Lolita, analyze their class stances and compare their similarities and differences.
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《Madame Bovary》和《Lolita》这两本书其实讲的都是一类事情，就是女性在资本主义社会受压迫的悲剧，然后讲他们没有遇到“好男人”。但是三本书的立场是截然不同的，得出的结论也都不一样。
《Madame Bovary》是资本主义社会上升期时写的，所以作者就以Madame Bovary的悲剧来说明资本主义社会是没有所谓“好男人”的，女性在资本主义社会如果幻想要找什么“好男人”最后就只能落得她这样的下场。虽然没有给出一个出路，但就揭露当时法国资本主义社会女性的悲惨处境而言还有一定的进步意义。
《Lolita》则极其反动，因为它的作者是一个变态恋童癖，作者是站在父权制大男子主义的角度上写的。所以虽然这本书最后也不得不承认女性在资本主义社会是很“悲惨”的，一旦找到了“坏男人”就要受尽压迫，但是主人公自己就是那个“坏男人”，是作者的化身，所以作者就在书中疯狂美化主人公这个畜生强奸犯，说其实这根本不是什么强奸，是“爱情”。
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The book 《房思琪的初恋乐园》 is about teachers assaulting young children, right? I remember that a few days ago, the Bai Se incident also referenced this book. If that’s the case, isn’t the protagonist initially a victim of assault and PUA, developing this kind of romantic view? She wouldn’t be considered the one who found the partner, right? It feels like the plot and analysis of each book could be more specific.
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I used to dislike Ueno Chizuko and didn’t feel much for de Beauvoir, but I prefer Woolf. However, I haven’t clearly distinguished the differences among the three of them; it’s just that Ueno Chizuko’s sentences always make me feel uncomfortable.
There is also a female character named Guo Xiaoqi. After being raped by the teacher Li Guohua, who has a beastly heart, her responses after speaking out are full of insults and doubts about her. In the end, she also received threatening letters from Li Guohua. Regarding women’s resistance, there is always a promotion of defeatism.
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There is also a very outrageous character called Qian Yiwei. Qian Yiwei is Xu Yuwen’s first husband and is a domestic abuser. Lin Yihan describes the romantic and marital experiences of Qian and Xu as very outrageous. From the beginning, it promotes bourgeois aesthetic and love concepts, praising Qian Yiwei as a capitalist who looks in line with bourgeois aesthetics, with a “gentlemanly demeanor,” treating people as commodities in a naked manner. After Qian and Xu got married, Qian Yiwei’s true nature was exposed; after drinking, he often abused Xu Yuwen physically, even causing Xu to have a miscarriage. However, the original text also tries hard to beautify this beast, saying he is very “gentle” to Xu Yuwen normally, and that he always provides the best materially for Xu, romanticizing his prostitution and paying for prostitutes as so-called “love,” which is really too outrageous.
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Thank you all for your criticism and answers. In the future, I will take the feminism and other literature I have encountered or will encounter more seriously. I used to think that expressing pain or other feelings in a unique way that moves me was good, and I was always eager to empathize with them. It’s hard to realize the reactionary nature of these things, which is also why I have been deeply poisoned. In the past, I couldn’t distinguish the categories of feminism at all; as long as I felt uncomfortable, I would label it as extreme or false and ignore it. Moving forward, I will further differentiate and try to learn Marxism earlier, studying and transmitting truly correct ideas.
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Recently, I gathered some information about Lin Yihan, the author of “Fang Siqi’s First Love Paradise,” and discovered some shocking remarks made by her. Such as “I can even be willful and say: if you finish reading and feel a trace of hope, I think you read it wrong, you can go back and re-read,” “What scares me is that very ‘smart, progressive, politically correct’ people, these people have ideals and ambitions. When they talk about structure, one by one, Fang Siqi, is it just falling through the big net? So why do I want to write about Siqi, even to the point of being a bit disgusting, erotic, and perverted… Everyone sees the statistics, so I don’t want to talk about structure, everyone forgets that it is about one person.”
In fact, from these remarks, it can be seen that Lin Yihan fundamentally opposes women’s liberation. She considers the bourgeois feminism to be too hypocritical, but she intends to use the hypocrisy of bourgeois feminism to oppose the entire women’s liberation. In her view, when women are harmed, they only feel “one-sided” pain, but she cannot see that women can also rise up and resist.
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The recent Baise incident involves a female victim named Fu Yuehua who was sexually assaulted by beastly teacher Tang Yuwen during high school, then read this black book, which intensified her slave mentality and had a negative influence.
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From this sentence, it can be seen that Lin Yihan’s essence is essentially a female version of Xu Jiajin. After suffering considerable pain and harm himself, he hated the hypocritical talk about feminism by Taiwanese bourgeois politicians at the time, but he never helped women achieve liberation in social actions. However, he did not oppose from the standpoint of all women, but from his own personal future perspective. Therefore, he did not think about which path famous women should take to achieve liberation, but cared more about whether his feelings were understood, whether he was treated fairly, and so on. To summarize his words and actions simply: No one cares about my feelings at all, you bourgeois politicians only talk about principles and statistics, do you understand the pain I have suffered! How painful I am, you simply do not understand!
Although his venting contains some reasonable elements in accusing bourgeois politicians, he mainly did not turn against bourgeois feminism, but instead shifted towards bourgeois feminism himself. In other interviews about Lin Yihan, more explicit words can actually be seen. Many details and even perverted plots in her book are written with ill intent. Because she does not want hope (that is, the path to liberation). She believes that “hope” is all false, and only when everyone feels her pain, when all women feel her pain, and experience that despair of being hopeless, is she satisfied. For this reason, her works are actually spreading despair. The bourgeois feminist views and various even bourgeois patriarchy views within are not criticized at all.
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