with a grotesque sexuality if not deformed by the CR. In Cries in the Drizzle, Wang Liqiang, due to the invalidity of his wife, is denied the pleasure of intimacy, out of desire he carries on a two years affair whose disproportioned consequences reflect the extend of the political repression. The protagonist Guanglin’s sexual awakening begins at fourteen with a night shiver accompanied by the panic of his secret masturbation. Drifted between temptation and a no well specified sin, he feels the need to confess to be loyal, he presumes punishment as mean to amendment: My life organized itself into two parts, day and night. During the day I felt up right and fearless, but once night arrived my resolve quickly collapsed. The speed with which I fell into desire’s embrace never ceased to astonish me. In those days my heart was in turmoil. I often felt that I was being torn in two, my dual identities glaring at each other like archenemies Alike the young Torless, Dedalus, Demian, the fruition of his discovery will soon be suffocated by a deep sense of guilt and the subsequent alienation from his best friend Su Yu. Meanwhile Su Yu’s desire will lead him to embrace a female in the street resulting for him in denunciation meeting, wooden placard, shaved head and a year sentenced to reform labor. In The Boat to Redemption, Donglian suffers the …show more content…
They have surrounded to men’s tyranny and ended up with nothing but self-pity. In fact, it could have been quite different. We should have understood the function of our own bodies and attracted and controlled men that way, and then tamed them. (…) Yet a woman’s sex is her magic weapon for defeating the outside world and revealing the significance of her existence (…) Sexual power is unique to women: it’s a kind of self-consciousness about one’s bodily function. When this consciousness sharpens, a woman becomes like a