《百舌鸟之死》中斯各特的女性成长解读

Interpreting Scout's Female Growth in To Kill a Mockingbird

哈珀·李的代表作《百舌鸟之死》触及了特殊时代背景下美国南方社会人性善恶、种族歧视和社会等级的虚伪等多重主题,引发了广泛的社会关注。作为一部优秀的女性成长小说,作品探索并呈现了女性在复杂社会环境下如何实现身心健康成长的命题。作品的叙述者小女孩斯各特在经历了一系列围绕布和汤姆案而发生的事件之后,心理变得逐渐成熟起来,对成人世界的事物由迷茫到顿悟,最终在父亲阿提克斯的指引下,通过对歧视与不公的无声反抗实现了自己的成熟与成长。

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee＇s masterpiece, deals with multiple themes, such as human good and evil, racial discrimination and hypocrisy of social hierarchy in the South of America, which caused a wide range of social concerns. As an excellent story about female growth, this book explores and demonstrates the problem about how females could physically and mentally achieve a healthy growth in a complex social environment. After experiencing a series of events related to Boo and Tom, Scout, the narrator of the work, gradually turns to be mature in adults＇ world from inside out. Under the guidance of her father, she achieves her maturity and growth through silent revolt against discrimination and injustice in the end.