失落的伊甸园——论《熊》中的荒野意象

The Lost Garden of Eden——On the Wildness Image and Archetype in The Bear

小说《熊》是福克纳"大森林三部曲"中最重要和着墨最多的一部。作品中的原始森林、老班和山姆是被赋予了具体形态的荒野意象。通过描写狩猎这种与自然亲密接触的仪式表达了作家对自然生命的无限崇敬和尊重以及对于荒野的逐渐消逝的感伤与惆怅之情,同时也揭示了西方现代社会中工业文明与荒野自然的对立。

The Bear is the most famous and important work of Faulkner＇ s ＂The Trilogy of Forest＂. The primitive wilderness, Big Ben and Sam in the story are the concrete embodiments of wilderness image. By depicting hunting, a ritual which can intimately touch the nature, the story expresses the author＇ s respect and longing for the natural world and the nostalgic and melancholy feeling on the disappearance of it, and also exposes the contradiction between industrialized civilization and wildemess in the modern society.