斯坦贝克对农业工人出路的构想——基于《愤怒的葡萄》象征意象的研究

Steinbeck's Solutions to the Issue of Migrant Farmers——A Study Based on the Symbolic Meanings in The Grapes of Wrath

在美国二十世纪三十年代经济大萧条背景下,斯坦贝克的《愤怒的葡萄》运用象征手法赋予人物与情节深刻的寓意,暗示了他对农业工人出路的构想,分别是拥有乌龟般的意志力,宿营地般的大家庭和乔德妈妈式的拯救者。作者推崇在思想上的革命,反对暴力的革命形式,他的构想无法使农业工人真正找到出路。

Written during the Great Depression in the 1930s,John Steinbeck＇s masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath provides three solutions to the issue of migrant farmers by applying symbolism in it.However,the will to live possessed by the turtle,the small communities in the form of camps and matriarchal society led by Ma Joad which are favored by him cannot help the migrant farmer find a way out,for these ideas are on a non-revolution basis.