解析《百舌鸟之死》的哥特特征

An Analysis of the Gothic Features in To Kill a Mockingbird

《百舌鸟之死》是美国南方女作家哈帕.李唯一的一部小说。作品继承和发扬了美国南方文学传统,揭示了种族关系的母题。同时作者也承继了哥特文学的传统,塑造了深入人心且极具代表性的哥特人物形象,如暴君父亲鲍勃.埃维尔,"怪物"布.拉德雷和不幸少女梅耶拉.埃维尔;选取了典型的哥特背景,借助现实与超自然因素的结合,在恐怖荒诞的情景和哥特的黑色氛围中,批判美国南方社会历史的罪恶,期冀新南方的到来。

To Kill a Mockingbird is the only novel of the American Southern female writer Harper Lee. Harper inherits and develops the Southern literary tradition by disclosing the typical motif-the racial relations in this novel. In addition, she is also greatly influenced by the Gothic literary traditions in view of her depiction of such impressive and representative characters as despotic father Bob Ewell, ＂monster＂ Boo Radley and the unlucky girl Mayella Ewell; her adoption of several gothic houses and night-time background; and her integration of supernatural elements into reality. Therefore, horror is produced and the gothic atmosphere is highlighted, by way of which Harper re-announces her criticism of evil in the old American South and heralds the upcoming of a new American South.