社会重压下的自我反抗——解读《法国中尉的女人》中的存在主义意识

存在主义作为一种现代西方非理性主义哲学思潮 ,对二战后法国以至整个欧洲的文学创作产生了广泛而深刻的影响 ,随之出现了一批着力描绘或揭示人在阴暗、荒诞的周围世界中无以自拔、无能为力的处境 ,意在使人震醒的存在主义文学。《法国中尉的女人》是英国存在主义作家约翰·福尔斯的代表作之一。本文通过对作品人物、情节、主题意义等多层面的分析 ,揭示了存在主义哲学对作家的影响及其在作品中的全面体现。

Existentialism is a modern irrational philosophical doctrine in the west. It had a widespread and profound influence on the western literary creation after the second world war. A large number of existentialist literary works, which reveal the helpless situation of people in a gloomy and absurd world, appeared subsequent to the war. The French Lieutenant's Woman is a representative work of British writer-John Fowles'. This article, by giving an overall analysis on the characters, plots and theme of this novel, uncovers how the writer's existentialist ideas are reflected in this novel.