生存的困境 觉醒的意识——《五号屠场》的生态批评

On the Survival Dilemma and Awakening Consciousness and the Ecocriticism of Slaughterhouse-Five

库尔特·冯内古特是美国文学史上最重要的后现代小说家之一,其作品《五号屠场》自问世以来备受关注。冯内古特在该部作品中描绘了一幅生态失衡的画面,小说的主人公毕利初到德勒斯顿时,被这个城市的美好环境所震惊。然而科技的发展,文明进程的推进,战争的爆发破坏了自然界原有的美丽与和谐,该市也没能逃过此劫,使其成为"荒原",人与自然和谐共存的关系一去不复返了,人与人之间变得异常冷漠,人性被严重地摧残和扭曲。作者希望通过小说,唤起人们的生态意识,使人与自然,人与社会达到一种和谐统一的关系。

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most important post - modern novelists in the American literature. His work Slaugh- terhouse - Five has got great concern since its publication. In the novel, Vonnegut describes a picture of unbalanced ecology. Billy Pigrim, the hero of this novel is shocked by the beautiful scenery in Dresden. However, the development of science and technology, the advancement of civilization, the outbreak of the war destroyed the original nature beauty and harmony, the city is destroyed and become a ＂wasteland＂. The harmonious relationship between humans and the nature has gone. The relation- ship between people become indifference and human nature is seriously vandalized and distorted. Through this novel, The au- thor hopes to arouse people~ ecological consciousness, and make the humans and nature, humans and society achieve a harmo- nious and unified relationship.