中西文化背景下贤妻形象的多维对审

男性社会对贤妻良母的共同诉求,致使中西文学史上不约而同地出现了贤妻形象因为受到儒家文化和宗教文化不同的影响,中西文学贤妻形象显现出既有共同性,又有差异性的文化特征。一方面,文化策略上,因父权制政治对父系血统维系的需要,不约而同形成了社会文化对女性忠贞品性的道德规范。另一方面,文化体系上,因不同体系伦理文化的具体影响,致使文学中反映的中西夫妻关系性质各异,女性卑从关系序列各异,女性贤德标准各异,子嗣生育境遇各异,构成了中西文化下贤妻文学形象的多维对审。

Multi- dimensional Cultural Comparison between Good Western and Chinese Wife Images

Derived from the same desire for good wife in patriarchal society,good wife images appear in both the Chinese literature and western literature.Respectively influenced by Chinese Confucian culture and Western Christianity Culture,good wife images in the Chinese literature and western literature show same as well as different cultural traits.On the one hand,with the same cultural strategy for the patriarchy to keep the patrilineal blood pure,both Chinese and western societies ask the women to be faithful to their husbands,which was the common virtue of the good wife images in both the Chinese literature and western literature.On the other hand,because of the influences of different ethical cultures,western and Chinese literatures show different spousal relationship,feminine goodness value,feminine inferiority systems and son heir problem.