浅析成长小说视角下的《钟形罩》

On The Bell Jar—A View of Growing Novel

西尔维亚.普拉斯的自传体小说《钟形罩》总是由于作者难解的自杀之迷和高度的女性意识而受到评论界的关注。然而,成长小说视角下的《钟形罩》使人对二战后美国女性的生存困境产生更为深切的关注与同情。在运用原型批评理论分析小说叙事结构原型及主要人物的原型经验的同时,主人公埃斯特作为一名年轻女性在成长过程中所经历的迷失与磨难、无奈与无望都得到了进一步的理解和解读。

The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel written by Sylvia Plath, is always the limelight of the critics for the suicidal inclination of the author and the high sense of feminine consciousness. However, viewed from a growing novel, the book makes us give a deep concern and sympathy over the post-war living plight of the American women. While analyzing the novel＇s narrative structure, the hero＇s archetypal experience by the help of archetypal criticism theory, the paper further explores the bewilderment, affliction and desperation experienced by Plath, a young woman heroine.