劳伦斯笔下的彩虹

The Rainbow under the Pen of Lawrence

国内有关《虹》的研究忽略了小说结尾处彩虹意象与书中先前彩虹意象的联系和呼应,因此未能更加深入地发掘该意象的丰富内涵。由彩虹意象烘托的反讽基调在小说中有一种结构性象征意义:在两次关键时刻出现的彩虹之间,厄秀拉刚好完成了一次圆圈似的历程––––以跟母亲分道扬镳始,又以回到母亲的立场终。在厄秀拉的历程背后隐含着这样一个问题:人们盲目地投入“外面的世界”––––即工业革命的洪流––––是否得不偿失?

Domestic studies on The Rainbow have neglected the links between the image of the rainbow at the end of the novel and its previous occurrences, thus resulting in a failure to delve more deeply into its implications and ramifications. The rainbow image, which throws into sharp relief the keynote of irony running throughout the novel, plays a structural symbolic role. Between two vital occurrences of the rainbow, Ursula has run a full circle-like course starting from her departure with her mother, only to return to the latter’s position again. Behind all this lurks the question of whether those have blindly plunged into “the outside world”, namely the torrents of the industrial revolution, have incurred a loss that outweighs their gain.