摘要
哈代在《苔丝》中表现了自然主义的主题,本文就文中数例意象来进一步阐释哈代表现自然主义主题的具体手段,这些意象包括太阳、收割机、马和锦鸡。太阳的进攻性暗示了新的生产方式对小农经济的蚕食,收割机所代表的机械化生产正在挤垮小农阶层,德伯家唯一老马的死亡象征着小农经济的完结,锦鸡的受害者意象影射了女主人公及她所代表的阶层的悲惨命运。而作者正是借种种意象暗示小农经济的消亡和女主人公的悲剧性结局。
Hardy’s masterpiece Tess of the D’Urbervilles features a naturalistic theme. This article tries to expound the concrete devices that Hardy utilizes to express this naturalistic theme, namely some images, including the image of the sun, the reaper, the horse, and the pheasants. The aggressiveness of the sun suggests the new productivity’s devouring of the petty farming. The reaper, representing the mechanization of farming, is putting the petty farmers out of business. The death of the horse prince symbolizes the ending of petty agriculture. The image of the maimed pheasants innuendoes the tragic fate of the heroine and the class she represents. All the above images imply the decease of the smallholders and the tragic ending of the heroine.
关键词
《苔丝》
意象
太阳
收割机
马
锦鸡
Tess of the D＇ Urbervilles image sun reaper horse pheasants
