反抗婚姻的丛林少女——小说《我的光辉生涯》女主人公形象剖析

A Bush Girl Fighting Against Marriage——On the Image of the Heroine in the Australian Novel My Brilliant Career

澳大利亚女作家迈尔斯.弗兰克林的自传体小说《我的光辉生涯》是第一部澳大利亚小说。它成功地塑造了反叛婚姻的丛林少女西比拉的艺术形象。在西比拉生活的世界里,婚姻如同一根绳索捆住女人的手脚,让她们乖乖地做男人的奴隶。女人的悲惨命运和男人的所作所为,使西比拉坚定了永不嫁人的决心。小说描绘的图景是一百多年前澳大利亚的丛林生活,但它所反映的女权主义思想和叛逆精神远远超越了它的国度和时代。作为澳大利亚女权运动的先驱,迈尔斯.弗兰克林远远走在时代的前头。

The Australian novelist Miles Franklin＇s autobiographic novel My Brilliant Career, successfully presents the image of Sybylla, a bush girl rebelling against marriage, In the heroine＇s life, all married women are trapped in marriage and victimized as a slave of men; and the men＇s behavior makes her determined not to marry any man. What is depicted in the novel is the life in the Australian bush at the end of the nineteenth century, but the feministic ideas and the rebellious spirit the author conveys go far beyond her own country and her times.