摘要
麦尔维尔的巨著《白鲸》是世界性的文化遗产。对它的宗教意义的研究还比较少。《白鲸》表现了麦尔维尔复杂的、难以确定的宗教观念。首先他心目中的神是《圣经·旧约》中的上帝 ,人们必须违反自己去遵从他的意愿。他的神又是指宇宙间的神性 ,即硕大无比的白鲸所代表的大自然所具有的神性。他怀疑《圣经》中上帝的仁慈 ,然而也不愿抛弃《圣经》教义的约束、像当时的超验主义者那样将人提高到神的地位。
Herman Melville's great novel Moby Dick as a cultural heritage of the world, has been widely studied, but so far as its religious meaning is concerned,adequate researches are still scarce. The present paper tries to make an exploring study in this respect. The paper holds that Moby Dick represents Melville's complex and uncertain religious ideas. On the one hand, the god in his mind is the Divinity in The Old Testament,whose will people should comply with against their own. But on the other hand, his god refers to the deity of nature represented by the great whale. Though he doubts the mercy of god in The Bible, yet he does not want to abandon the constraint of its doctrines to elevate man to deity as the transcendentalists used to do then.
出处
《外国文学研究》
北大核心
2003年第4期24-27,共4页
Foreign Literature Studies
