海明威的宗教情结——基督教视角下的《永别了,武器》

An Analysis of A Farewell to Arms from the Christian Perspective

海明威的《永别了,武器》揭示了人类由干战争的罪恶注定走向毁灭,而人类命运的唯一前途在于对善、真爱及和平的追求这一主题。这一主题蕴涵于“尘土” 和“雨” 两大意象之中,并在主人公亨利思想转变的心路历程中得到集中体现。两大意象极具《圣经》隐喻,喻示基督教“原罪论”基本教义;同时,作品的主要情节同贯穿《圣经》的善与恶冲突的主要情节相一致。这显示了海明威体认战争本质、沉思人类命运的基督教视角及其宗教情结。

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway discloses that due to the sin of war, human being is des-tined to ruin and the only way out lies in the pursuit of true love and peace. This thematic motif is displayedby the recurrent images of 'dust' and 'rain' and is particularly enhanced with the development of the major plot:the hero's spiritual conversion process. The two images teeming with biblical il1usions incarnate the author'sdoctrine of biblical 'original sin' while the major plot process comes to show the confiicts between the goodand the evil as had been the case in Bible. It is clear that there is an obsessed religious complex and Chrstianperspective in Hemingway's understanding of the nature of war and his meditation of the fate of human being.