《动物园的故事》:E·奥尔比戏剧作品的原型剖析

On the Archetype Analysis of E·Albee's The Zoo Story

爱德华·奥尔比(EdwardAlbee)被公认为是继尤金·奥尼尔、田纳西·威廉斯及阿瑟·米勒之后美国最重要的戏剧家。其作品里自始至终都贯穿着对死亡的哲学思考。对于奥尔比而言,处理死亡无非就是处理活者的生存危机,只有把"生命价值"作为中心才能够超越被"无意义"腐蚀、葬送的生命本体,进而得到精神的再生。本文试图以神话原型理论对《动物园的故事》进行重新解读,通过考察作品中人物形象的生命历程,把握死亡与再生这一切入生命本质的主题。

Edward Albee is recognized as the fourth greatest American playwright after Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. The variety of Albee's art and the intensity of his concern about both form and idea are the contributions to the American stage confirmed by all of his plays. And they also replicate the playwright's life-long preoccupation with death. For Albee the management of death means dealing with the existential crisis of the alive. The only way to surmount the life rotted by the sense of insignificance is the acclaim of the value of life so as to gain the spiritual rebirth. Here the analysis of these plays through the archetypal method may help us to master the death-rebirth theme deep rooted in them.