节点文献

论《蝇王》中象征体系的构建

The Construction of Symbolic System in Lard of the Flies

【作者】 李源

【导师】 杨冬;

【作者基本信息】 吉林大学 , 比较文学与世界文学, 2007, 硕士

【摘要】 《蝇王》虽然故事情节简单,主要人物也都是孩子,但它的象征意味却是复杂和深远的。它通过虚构的文本,确切说是假想的未来故事背景,构筑起了对人性这一主题新的颠覆与思考,因此成了学术界长期争相评议的焦点。而在文本的虚构性与主题的重构性之间起到重要的过渡连接作用的,正是这部小说有机象征体系的构建。无论是在人物塑造、情节设计、结构安排、语言使用上,还是在其他具体艺术手法的运用上,它的独特性都是显而易见的,与其他小说相比有着明显的超越性。小说里的种种象征,已经超出了手法层面而构成了一个巧妙、和谐和完整的象征体系。可以说,《蝇王》所取得的艺术成就在很大程度上应归功于作者大量地、多层次地使用象征手法。纷繁的象征给戈尔丁的这部作品赋予了丰富的层次和复杂的内涵,增大了作品的容量,使《蝇王》成为二十世纪英国文学史上最重要、也最具影响的作品之一。

【Abstract】 William Golding is a productive writer. But in his many works, out of question Lord of the flies is the most representative and brilliant work. Although the work’s plot is simple and the leading actors are children, the symbolic meaning is complex and far-reaching. Through the fictive text, exactly to say is the fictitious future to construct the new subversion and consideration of humanness, so it becomes the focus of academia’s discussion. The symbolic system exerts the important transitional and conjunctional effect between the text’s fiction and the motif’s reconstruction. The discourse tries to show the novel’s character and the organic system through the analysis of personality and imago and the surrounding.A. The symbol of the character in Lord of the fliesIn Golding’s Lord of the flies, symbol is no longer the expressive technique but a holistic literary notion and a method of mastering the world. The primary characters are not only the main bodies of the plot but also take on the mission of Golding’s symbol. With the change of surrounding, the important characters decomposed two groups of strength from one unity-one group leaded by lolfe who emphasized logos and the other one leaded by Jack who advocated the crazy action. The novel showed the motif in the two groups’form sitzkrieg and the end.In the two groups, the first group tried to retain the order criterion and the principle of the civilized world and solve the problems they faced with the civilized knowledge and method including making fire and constructing wickiup and assigning tasks and so on. Although from the surface, the tameless strength challenged the effort and the civilized crisis comes, did all the results impute Jack? The author gave the answer of No. The novel uncovers Jack group’s atrocity and at the same time doesn’t ignore the hesitation of another group even the shadowiness.B. The imago in Lord of the fliesThe imago in Lord of the flies has the orientation of character and impression. It is the character and impression that dilute the imitation in the work so that upgrades the function of symbol. As a philosophical novel, the imago in Lord of the flies has the given meaning of symbol.The imagoes such as the trumpet shell and the fire and the boat and the feigned mask and the beast and the lord of the flies have an important effect in the novel.C. The surrounding in Lord of the fliesThe author plays the story’s address in an lonely island which insulates the world and makes the setting pure and absolute consciously. That makes the novel show the story in a station of isolation and abstract in order to experience the cognition of human nature. So the special arrangement has the given meaning of symbol.From the content of the story, Lord of the flies belongs to the traditional branch of Robinson Crusoe and Bullion Island and Coralline Island. But in fact the novel is the irony imitation to them concretely. The island that Golding portrays is just a carrier the same with Shakespeare’s. It’s true face bases on the philosophical thought and the deep worry to the human nature and the human’s future.D. The organic symbolic system in Lord of the fliesIn the novel Lord of the flies, Golding excavates the human’s internecine root which hasn’t stopped for thousands of years with his special thought and calm. That is to say, it is a modern parable that uncovers the human’s evil. The novel intercalates a series of human’s contradiction such as the origin kindness and the evil, human nature and beast nature, the sense and sensibility even the civilization and wildness. The result of conflict among them shows the frailty of civilization and sense and the difficulty of pursuing the order of democratization. In the presence of desire and wildness, why does the civilization show the great fragility? Perhaps that is the thought that the novel gives us.The novel Lord of the flies makes the story’s time and space far away from the present. It expresses some opinions through the characters and the plot full of symbolic meaning in order to mock the real world. Because of the integration of fiction and reality, and at the same time the fictive plot always turns into concrete form while the reality hides in the fictive part, the connective function of symbol exerts an important effect especially. Through the symbolic analysis of the character and imago and the surrounding, it can conform all the meaning of the novel and observe the author’s cognition and his special sense and the creative expression even his expectation. What the author’s expression is not the human’s kindness and help each other, but the evil and the internecine among human. The author points at the deep crisis in the present of human not the brilliant future in the human world. In the novel, what we observe and feel is not the release and happiness but the heaviness and the saline.

【关键词】 虚构主题象征意象境遇
  • 【网络出版投稿人】 吉林大学
  • 【网络出版年期】2007年 04期
  • 【分类号】I561.074
  • 【被引频次】6
  • 【下载频次】1448
节点文献中: 

本文链接的文献网络图示:

本文的引文网络