Summary Of Miss Wuo's Suicide

Miss.Zhao’s Suicide
According to Mary Rampolla, “The history’s goals is not collect facts about the past, but rather to acquire insight into the ideas and realities that shaped the lives of men and women of earlier society”1 In China, May Fourth Movement was one of the turning point, which represented the conflict between old values and new culture. Mao’s article about Zhao’s Suicide made lots of youth realized that China should change. If they did not give up the old values, China would not be developed in future. In old China, men and women were treated in unequal way. Men controlled the whole society but women are treated as objects. Marriage was one of the most important events in people’s life. Because of the Confucian values, people did not have right to control their marriage. Mao also experienced the old values of China. When he was young, he was arranged a marriage with a young woman but he
Chinese governor used Confucian values to control whole society. Everyone should follow the unequal rules, especially women. It created lots of unhealthy situations in the society. People just focus on themselves. Women were treated as non human being because marriage was based on economic benefit. “love was considered to be only secondary, while the core relationship remained economic, and was thus controlled by capitalism.” 2 Women were not the first priority in a family but money was the only way to judge something. Woman’s marriage was the jetton for the family. Also, marriage in China are decided by matchmakers. Matchmakers provided the ideas that “marriage is determined by destiny.” It is this theory of predestination that gives rise to such extremely irrational practices as “marriages decided in the womb” and “choosing a partner in infancy.”3If marriage is not based on love, women is just a childbirth tool in a family. It will make the negative circulation because it emphasizes the male chauvinism again and