Using "Gaze Theory" to Explore the Plight of Women in Literary Rhetoric and Real Society in "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise"

Abstract

"Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise" is a novel by the late Taiwanese female writer Lin Yihan, the main content of the novel is that the junior high school girl Fang Siqi was sexually assaulted by cram school teacher Li Guohua for a long time, and finally had a nervous breakdown. "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise" has attracted the attention not only Fang Siqi, who has been sexually assaulted but also a large number of female images under the gaze of male power ideology and male subjects, losing freedom and discourse, unconsciously being shaped into the appearance of male hope, the novel directly exposes the survival dilemma of women's reality in this regard. At the same time, Lin Yihan writes in the highly rhetorical language of literature, exposing the violence of male power in the world of rhetoric and skillfully outlining the plight of women in the world of literary rhetoric. Starting from the theory of "gaze", it focuses on analysing women's postures in both literature and reality and explores the manifestations and reasons for women's double dilemma.