窗与两性的灯塔——《到灯塔去》中象征主义解读

The Window and the Lighthouse from the Perspectives of Different Genders——Reading the Major Symbols in To the Lighthouse

《到灯塔去》作为伍尔夫意识流小说的压卷之作,具体而生动地展示了她的小说理论———探求生活的真实性在于表现人物的“内在真实”,即人复杂多变的精神世界。为实现这一理念,伍尔夫在小说中运用了大量的象征意象来暗示人物内在的性格和思想情绪。《到灯塔去》中的两个重要人物拉姆奇夫妇和两种实物———灯塔与窗———充分表现了作者独特新颖的想像力和创作思想。充满神秘特质的象征意象不仅赋予了小说多元的意义。

As Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, To the Lighthouse is loaded with various symbols which grant the novel different reading and multiple perspectives. In fact, To the Lighthouse embodies Virginia Woolf's new concept about novel writing in the first part of 20th century——to probe the deeper levels of the human psyche. Her symbolism is one of her attempts to achieve the aim of rendering 'true life'—— the character's inner reality. Among all the symbols displayed in To the Lighthouse, the Lighthouse, the window——symbols of objects, and Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay——symbols of character are the most important because of their original, uncertain and mysterious quality.