发掘者和终结者——对《觉醒》中阿黛尔和雷西的女性主义解读

The Explorer and Terminator:A Feminist Analysis of Adele and Mademoiselle Reisz in The Awakening

《觉醒》中的阿黛尔和雷西不仅是对主人公埃德娜的烘托和反衬,更是埃德娜观照自我的一面镜子。她们以不同的方式,从不同的角度伴随了埃德娜的整个觉醒之旅。从她们的身上,埃德娜认识到自身潜在的女性气质,释放了压抑已久的对情感和欲望的追求,并且以艺术为媒介探索自我的生成。但同时这两位女性的自我是缺失的、不完整的。其中阿黛尔所代表的“母性枷锁”注定了埃德娜的觉醒和抗争以悲剧告终。而埃德娜回归大海的结局则是肖班对女性存在与自我实现这对无法调和的矛盾的一个乌托邦式的解答。

In the novel The Awakening,Adele and Mademoiselle Reisz are two women characters with sharp contrast in personality. To Edna, they are not simply a foil, but muse and mirror, who awaken Edna and accompany her throughout the solitary journey of self-realization. From them, Edna realizes her potential femininity and learns to release her repressed emotional desire. Meanwhile, She begins to construct her selfhood through art. But the self consciousness ofAdele ar J Mademoiselle Reisz is incomplete and self-deceiving. And the ＂motherhood＂ represented by Adele makes Edr s awakening doomed to be tragic. And Edna＇ s return to the sea at the end of the novel reflects Chopin＇ s utopian olution to the contradiction between feminine existence and self-realization.