永远“在路上”的身份构建——对奥威尔《牧师的女儿》的解读

Identity Construction“On The Road”Forever

奥威尔在20世纪30年代创作了4部小说,其中《牧师的女儿》长期受到评论界的忽视。在这部小说中,奥威尔面对社会庸俗伪善的现实,准确把握了主人公多萝西的内心挣扎与变异。主人公为逃脱人格逻辑悖论,离开家乡进行身份越界的探索,希望以构建新身份的方式得到身心的解放,但流浪漂泊和从业生涯相继失败,最终在回归后以重拾宗教信仰来拯救自我,而这种拯救又是在不断关爱他人中构建自身,所以多萝西的身份构建永远"在路上"。这种构建身份的新方式也体现在奥威尔后期小说代表作中,成为个人面对极权统治的生存选项之一,因此《牧师的女儿》对我们进行奥威尔小说研究具有特定的价值。

George Orwell＇s early novel Clergymen＇s Daughter is ignored for a long time. In this novel,Orwell grasps the heroine＇s inner alienation in capitalist materialistic society. He hopes to get the spiritual liberation by self-promotion identity through the activity of border-crossing by the narrator and the heroine. However, due to his hesitation and sense of uncertainty,Orwell does not set a happy ending for the novel,and this attitude can also be seen in his later works. An analysis of this novel will shed some light on the appreciation of his other works.