《土生子》逃离主题探析

On the Flight Theme of Native Son

在残酷的种族歧视的社会环境下,小说《土生子》主人公别格沦为美国社会的局外人并因杀人而锒铛入狱。理查德赖特通过挖掘黑人犯罪的制度根源,塑造了一个为了寻求自身价值而抗争的黑人新形象,揭示了在种族歧视的"白色恐怖"的合围中,主人公别格怀着对平等和自由的向往和追求、不堪忍受不公正环境的压抑而逃离的主题。

Influenced by the cruel racial discrimination,Bigger,the hero in Native Son,has become a stranger in American society and been thrown into prison for murdering.Richard Right,by revealing the fact that it is the American society itself that makes the black commit crimes,reshapes a new image of the Black of fighting for its own being and unveils the theme that Bigger chooses to flight from the unfair society in pursuit of freedom and equality.