论劳伦斯小说的性伦理

Sex Ethics in Lawrence’s Fiction

劳伦斯因其小说进行了大量的性描写,生前颇遭非议。其实透过他的小说,我们可以看到当时英国社会性伦理的嬗变和劳伦斯自己的性伦理观。劳伦斯及其小说的性伦理表现为:反对理性、道德对人性的干预,主张回归人的自然本性,追求“灵”与“肉”的和谐结合。为金钱左右选择婚姻的人、“精神型”和“肉欲型”的人都是他否定的对象。他以自己的性伦理标准,塑造了自己心目中理想性关系的人物形象,这对于揭露批判资本主义工业文明对人性的扭曲、资产阶级性道德的虚伪腐败有一定积极意义。由于他在否定资产阶级道德的同时,实际上也否定了任何道德的必要,因而他的性伦理是有缺陷的。

Although D. H. Lawrence＇ s fiction has received severe criticism for its description of sex, it reveals the evolution of sex ethics in Britain and the writer＇ s own ethical ideology about sex. The major principles of the sex ethics embodied in Lawrence＇ s fiction are mainly the following points ： opposition to the oppression of humanity by rationality and existing social morality, advocacy of the restoration of human nature, pursuit of the harmony between ＂spirit＂ and ＂flesh＂. He strongly criticizes those who marry for fortune or money, and those who only desire ＂spirit＂ or ＂ flesh＂. In his fiction carrying his own ethical standards, he creates some characters who live in ideal sexual relationship. Through such creation, Lawrence criticizes the distortion of humanity by industrialization and the hypocrisy and corruption of bourgeois morality. However, Lawrence＇ s own sex ethics is also flawed, for he denies the necessity of any morality when he negates the bourgeois morality.