《胎记》中的多重主题和现实寓意

Multiple themes and realistic messages in The Birthmark

一直以来,霍桑的小说以其巧妙的构思,奇特的题材,丰富象征的多种可能,引人深思的各种主题和时代意义而被读者喜欢抑或不喜欢着,而一个多世纪以来的读者们似乎也无法穷尽他小说中的各种隐藏主题。拿《胎记》为例,笔者试图从读者接受和叙事学角度挖掘其表面寓意下的更为丰富和深刻的主题意义来说明霍桑笔下的艺术品拥有怎样的艺术魅力。

Hawthorne’s novels have long been liked or disliked for it’s ingenious creativity, novel subject matters, multiplicity of symbolic meanings, intriguing multiple themes, and great significance to all ages. His readers even for more than a century seem still hard to exhaust all hidden themes between the lines. The writer of this thesis attempts to take the short story The Birthmark as an example and from the angle of a reader's response and narratology dig into its abundant and profound themes under the surface meaning for the purpose of illustration of the rich charm of Hawthorn’s literature arts.