论《十九号房间》主题——理性的失败

On the "Room Nineteen" theme——Rational failure

英国小说家多丽丝·莱辛在短篇小说《到十九号房间》中将视角聚焦在一名退职在家的主妇的内心世界以展示20世纪经过了两次世界大战之后的西方社会对"理性"的失望。非理性就像沉寂在灵魂深处的一条潺潺得暗流,理性试图困御本能,激情和情感的企图可能最终会撕裂完整的人格。《十九号房间》篇首便点明小说的主题在于揭示"理性的失败"。本文通过对作品中出现的蛇和魔鬼及其引申的意象的细读,在此基础之上结合原型批评的方法,力图揭示意象背后的丰富的精神内涵和文化意蕴,以此凸显莱辛对西方传统理性至上思想的反思与颠覆。

The British novelist Doris Lessing focused in a retirement home housewife's inner world to show the western society of the 'rational' in twentieth Century after the two World War in the short story 'Room Nineteen'. Irrational as silent as the undercurrent in a babbling soul trapped, rational to instinct, passion and emotion may eventually tear complete personality. 'Room Nineteen' first is the theme of the novel, to reveal out 'rational failure'. In this paper, through the close reading of the works appeared in the snake and the devil and the extended image, on the basis of the archetypal criticism, tries to reveal the rich spiritual connotation and cultural implication of imagery, which highlight Lessing to the western traditional rationalism reflection and subversive thought.