权力规训下的女性身体——试用福柯的身体理论解读《福尔赛世家》中的女性形象

Female Body under the Discipline of Power——Analyzing the Female Image in The Forsyte Saga by Employing Foucault's Body Theory

福柯的身体理论关注权力对身体的规训,其主要策略有监视、规范裁决和检查。《福尔赛世家》三部曲第一部中的男主人公的两任妻子均受到了来自国家法律机构赋予个人的财产权和来自家庭中的家长权和夫权的规训,呈现出一幅失去主体的、被动的、时刻处于被各种权力或监视或规范裁决或检查的女性身体图景。究其根源是具有强烈财产意识的福尔赛主义所导致,从而暴露了资产阶级的本性和他们家庭婚姻关系的虚伪性。

The focus of Foucauh＇s body theory is the discipline of power to the body, and the main strategies are monitoring, normative verdict and inspection. In the first part of Galsworthy＇s ＂The Forsyte Saga＂ trilogy, both of Soames＇ former and present wives are disci-plined by the fight of individual property from the national legal institution from a macro level, by the patriarchal fight and the authority of the husband in the family from a micro-level, and thus a picture of female body which is passive, hasn＇t its own identity and is in constant monitoring, normative verdict or inspection from a variety of powers, appears in front of readers. Forsyteism is the rooting cause, which reveals the nature of the bourgeois and the hypocrisy of their family marital relationships as well.