论《双城记》对革命的态度

Attitude towards Revolution of A Tale of Two Cities

狄更斯的《双城记》突出描绘了法国大革命前期的图景。狄更斯对大革命的态度可以说是复杂的,一方面他同情人民,认同革命必将到来;另一方面他又对革命场面做出种种恐怖描写,进而表现出他对革命的反思与否定。虽然对革命的态度前后反差很大,然而却有内在一致性,即狄更斯的人道主义思想和对革命的认识层面的偏差。本文试图梳理作者态度变化的脉络,分析产生这些变化的原因。

Diekens＇A Tale of Two Cities depicted the whole picture of the great revolution in France. Dickens held a complicated attitude towards the great relation. On the one hand he sympathized the common people and recognized the coming of revolution; on the other hand he described the revolution in a horrifying way and showed his reflections on and negative attitude towards it. Although his attitudes towards the revolution were fairly different, the two attitudes were consistent intrinsically, reflecting Dickens＇ humanistic ideas and his erroneous understanding of revolution. This paper attempts to find out the paths of change of the author＇s attitudes and offer some explanations of this change.