My Operamothers and daughters
Sunday, November 26, 2006 11:26:33 AM
The movie Joy Luck Club 
is about the stories of 4 mothers and theirs daughters. The stories of the mothers were happened in China, the stories of the daughters are happening in America. The movie is long, and the stories are complicated. So many things about Chinese family had been shown in the movie, like tradition, conflict, generation gap and love. What impressed me the most and made me think deeply is about women’s fate.
The movie is all about women, about their stories, about their mind and about their life. The movie begins and ends with the feather, which carried all the good intention, in another word, love and hope. But the stories in the movie are sad somehow.
Four mothers, whom use to lived in old China, had different lives and destinies, still, their life were the same, no happiness, no freedom, no love. When they went to America and had their daughters, their daughters follow their mothers’ fate, like Auntie A Mei told her daughter that it’s fate and it just like a stair, step by step, going to the same way. They don’t know what they worth and they don’t know what they want.
That’s the stories in the movies. But it’s still true in nowadays-Chinese society. Women’s status has been improved much more than before. We could receive higher education, we could have different kinds of jobs, and we could do every thing that men do. It’s great progress of feminism and the government contributed a lot in this realm.
But deep in many women’s mind, the thought that woman is man’s possession is still there, hard. Their mothers taught them that girls are weaker than boys; girls are not as good and smart as boys and one day, when the daughter grows up, she will need a man for shelter instead of her family.
Leading by this “possession thought”, girls are allow to do things worse than boy since they’re regarded weaker than male. The saddest thing is that those girls who have this thought do things only to have a good husband. Take sex for example, they tend to ignore it rather than admit it. They won’t have sex before they get married because they need to save their virginity for the future husbands. If unfortunately they have had sex, they will be regarded as “dirty” and “used”, then they won’t worth as much as they were virgin. How pathetic.
Mothers taught their daughters the traditional virtue of women, and pass the destiny from generation to generation. For thousands of years, women were following the same fate of theirs mothers, even today, you will see when you open a fashion magazine for elite women, it also talks about how women to win and keep men’s heart. I think one of the reasons why married woman are so eager for a son is because that a boy means a breakthrough of her destiny, a boy belongs to her means a power in her body, when the boy grows up, so does her power.
Fate, what a word. Is it unchangeable? Or we women could work hard and try hard to break the continued destiny? I believe in our own power. We need to believe that we belong to no one else except ourselves. We deserved happiness, don’t we?
The movie is all about women, about their stories, about their mind and about their life. The movie begins and ends with the feather, which carried all the good intention, in another word, love and hope. But the stories in the movie are sad somehow.
Four mothers, whom use to lived in old China, had different lives and destinies, still, their life were the same, no happiness, no freedom, no love. When they went to America and had their daughters, their daughters follow their mothers’ fate, like Auntie A Mei told her daughter that it’s fate and it just like a stair, step by step, going to the same way. They don’t know what they worth and they don’t know what they want.
That’s the stories in the movies. But it’s still true in nowadays-Chinese society. Women’s status has been improved much more than before. We could receive higher education, we could have different kinds of jobs, and we could do every thing that men do. It’s great progress of feminism and the government contributed a lot in this realm.
But deep in many women’s mind, the thought that woman is man’s possession is still there, hard. Their mothers taught them that girls are weaker than boys; girls are not as good and smart as boys and one day, when the daughter grows up, she will need a man for shelter instead of her family.
Leading by this “possession thought”, girls are allow to do things worse than boy since they’re regarded weaker than male. The saddest thing is that those girls who have this thought do things only to have a good husband. Take sex for example, they tend to ignore it rather than admit it. They won’t have sex before they get married because they need to save their virginity for the future husbands. If unfortunately they have had sex, they will be regarded as “dirty” and “used”, then they won’t worth as much as they were virgin. How pathetic.
Mothers taught their daughters the traditional virtue of women, and pass the destiny from generation to generation. For thousands of years, women were following the same fate of theirs mothers, even today, you will see when you open a fashion magazine for elite women, it also talks about how women to win and keep men’s heart. I think one of the reasons why married woman are so eager for a son is because that a boy means a breakthrough of her destiny, a boy belongs to her means a power in her body, when the boy grows up, so does her power.
Fate, what a word. Is it unchangeable? Or we women could work hard and try hard to break the continued destiny? I believe in our own power. We need to believe that we belong to no one else except ourselves. We deserved happiness, don’t we?
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