《印度之行》中探求者形象分析

On Questers in A Passage to India

与原初探求者相比,《印度之行》中的探求者已有了很大不同。后者进行的是精神探求,注重的是对一种和谐完美的人际关系的获取。这一原型的置换变形正是对日趋发达的物质社会中人类面临的异化感、精神空虚与困惑的表达。与原初探求者一样,早期现代主义小说《印度之行》中的探求者,仍然保持着一份理想以及为之奋斗的高尚情操,而没有像后来的现代主义作品中的探求者那样陷入精神漫游而变得更加迷茫。处于所谓“后现代之后”的人类社会,在解构一切、认可一切、号称“多元化”的同时,实际已滑向道德崩溃的边缘。

This paper conducts a detailed survey on questers in E. M Forster's masterwork A Passage to India. Compared with the original quester, questers in A Passage to India are quite different; the latter lead a spiritual quest, focusing on the acquisition of harmonious and perfect human relationships. The displacement of this archetype just expresses the alienation, spiritual void and confusion human beings facing in a highly materialized society. However, just like the original quester, questers in this early modernistic novel still keep respectable nobility and morality, instead of walking into a spiritual wandering as questers in later modernistic or post-modernistic novels do.