哈克和吉姆的形象分析

Analyzing the Images of Huck and Jim

马克.吐温的小说《哈克贝利芬历险记》问世以来,书中的两个主人公哈克和吉姆一直受到囿于传统思维的评论家的贬低,本文应用德里达的解构理论来解读这部作品,打破以文明/野蛮、白人/黑人的二元对立结构来构建文本意义的思维方式,分析了哈克和吉姆形象新的内涵,指出这两个形象的意义———他们的存在颠覆了＂文明＂高于＂野蛮＂,＂白人＂高于＂黑人＂的价值观,他们是对当时社会制度提出质疑及挑战的代表人物,小说的价值正来源于此。

This paper is to examine the character of Huck and Jim from the deconstructive perspective in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.The previous critics may devalue Huck and Jim based on their inherited ways of thinking.Employing Derrida’s theory of deconstruction,the writer overruled the critics’ conventional thinking of searching for binary oppositions the civilized/the uncivilized,the white/the black.Hence a new interpretation of Huck and Jim is let loose---Huck and Jim symbolize the challengers of the established system in current society.It is on this point that rests the novel’s value.