论麦琪之死──对《弗洛斯河上的磨房》中麦琪的悲剧解读

On the Death of Maggie:An Interpretation of Maggie's Tragedy in The Mill on the Floss

作为19世纪英国最伟大的女性作家之一,乔治.爱略特以其独特的女性视角对女性进行反思,为其时代的女性的探索提供了一种思路。《弗洛斯河上的磨房》正是这种思索的具体体现。女主人公麦琪放弃爱情、选择亲情体现了爱略特的人本宗教与道德观,她的温情、爱体现了爱略特的女性意识观,她的死既彰显了基于人本道德观的女性的道德与人格魅力,也表明作者思想无法让其时代的女性超越自我而最终罹难的局限性。

As one of the greatest female writers in England in the 19th century, George Eliot devoted herself to the reflection on the female life in her creation from her particular perspective and explored the way out for females for in his time, which The Mill on the Floss was aimed at. Maggie, the protagonist, chose to,. after strenuous struggles, give up love for her beloved family, conforming to the advocated religion of humanist and ethics by the author, and her female gentleness and affection is embodiment of Eliot＇s women consciousness. Her final death,＂ however, illustrated both the .excellence of females in terms of their morality and personality, and the limitation of Eliot＇ ideas in that it failed to help the females of her times transcend their real existence and eventually they lived in torments and conflicts or went to extreme like Maggie, to die.