从《魔瓶》看斯蒂文森在殖民主义问题上的二重性

To Observe the Duality of Stevenson on Colonialism from The Bottle Imp

斯蒂文森在《魔瓶》中从政治经济学意义上向读者揭示了殖民主义原始资本积累的罪恶,他严厉批判了贪婪的西方殖民者并预示他们最终将难逃惩罚。然而,他在小说中也表现出了一定的殖民意识:俯视被殖民地人民,并将东方作为一个供其想象的"他者"。因此,斯蒂文森在殖民主义问题上具有二重性。对于这种二重性,应该辩证、客观地去看待。

In The Bottle Imp, Stevenson exposes the crime of the initial capital accumulation to readers through colonizing from political economics, criticizes the greedy colonists and foretells their fate of being punished. However, in his novellas he embodies his colonial ：looking down the people in colonized area and regarding the Orient as the ＂other＂. Thus he has dual characters on colo- nialism,which we should treat objectively and dialectically