析《门泽哲斯坦》里奴隶制中的绝对同一性特征

On the Slavery Characteristics and the Absolute Unity in Metzengerstein

埃德加.爱伦.坡在他的早期作品《门泽哲斯坦》①中关于种族主义和奴隶制特征描述,流露出对奴隶的厌恶情绪以及对解放奴隶和奴隶革命的深深担忧。以谢林的绝对哲学为参照②,进一步指出作者也在努力地追求着他的绝对同一,试图将对抗着的主客观、意识与潜意识综合起来,去发现绝对同一的运作过程。可以说他是通过对人类心理意识的深刻洞察含蓄地表达了他的政治观点。

Influenced by the political crisis of the time, Poe had conducted a serious study of slavery in his early works. This essay mainly examines racial and slavery characteristics in Metzengerstein, pointing out his disgusting feeling towards the slave and deep concern on the slave emancipation and rebellion. By referring to the absolute philosophy of Schelling, it concludes that Poe also believes in the absolute unity and intends to synthesize subjectivity and objectivity, and conscious and subconscious, to describe the working of the absolute unity. He expresses his political view skillfully by exploring the mind of the human being.