《所罗门之歌》中的物人关系

The Relationship Between Things and People in Song of Solomon

莫里森在《所罗门之歌》中描写了物与人的三种关系。将人物化,麦肯因逐利而“白化”,斩断与亲人同胞之情,是“成功的失败者”;吉他因仇恨蒙蔽双眼,随意夺取无辜之人的性命,沦为复仇工具。将物人化,露丝过度依赖已故父亲之物,最终落得个被物所奴役的下场。达到物我平衡状态,派拉特不似麦肯为逐利放弃自我,用她精神上的强大弥补现实物质的不足;虽以耳环纪念逝去的父亲与过往,却不像露丝那般为物所奴役。奶娃也在其影响下以更健康的方式看待物人关系,找到自我。

Morrison's Song of Solomon depicts three kinds of relationships between things and people.The characterization,Macon“whitened”by the pursuit of profit,cut off the love of fellow relatives,is a“successful loser”.Guitar blinded by hatred,taking the lives of innocent people at will,reduced to a tool of revenge.Ruth is overly dependent on her late fatber's thing,and ends up being enslaved by it.To achieve a balanced state of things and self,Pilate is not like Macon who gives up himself for profit.She uses her spiritual strength to make up for the lack of material reality;although she commemorates her dead father and the past with earrings,she is not enslaved to things like Ruth.Milkman is also influenced by a healthier way of looking at the relationship between things and people and fnding himself.