美人之死:人类和自然的抗衡与较量

Death of a Beauty: The Wrestle between Man and Nature

霍桑的短篇名作《胎记》中的胎记是自然的化身和女性意识的代表,在故事中扮演着极为重要的角色。阿尔默对胎记的去除象征着人类与自然的殊死抗衡与较量,而这种抗衡往往是以牺牲女性的利益甚至生命为代价的。以往对该作品的研究恰恰忽略了阿尔默对胎记强行征服的生态涵义和胎记的手印形状以及颜色变化的特殊寓意。本文拟以此为焦点,重新解读《胎记》,深入挖掘作品浓厚、超前的生态女性主义思想。

In Hawthorne＇s short story The Birthmark, birthmark is an incarnation of nature and a representation of female conscience, Actually, it plays a key role in the whole story, Alymer＇ s mad efforts to eliminate birthmark symbolizes man＇ s des- perate wrestle against nature, and in most cases, it is at the cost of the benefit even lives of women, The research es done before, however, ignored the very ecological meaning of Alymer＇ s conquer of birthmark and the special moral of its hand-like shape and changes in color. So this paper aims at exploring the profound and forerunning eeo-feminist ideology of The Birthmark through fo- cusing on the interpretation of the above points.