《始于科娄纳斯的路》的神话原型解读

Analysis of The Road from Colonus from the Perspective of Myth and Archetypal Criticism

E·M·福斯特的短篇小说《始于科娄纳斯的路》是以古希腊神话《俄狄浦斯王》为原型创作的,通过运用神话原型和象征等写作手法,揭示英国进入工业时代后的社会问题,批判了人与人之间的冷漠。本文从人物、情节和事物等意象来阐述《始于科娄纳斯的路》中的神话原型和象征意义,旨在更加全面地诠释福斯特对工业化的英国社会的担忧和对古希腊古罗马文化的缅怀。

The Road from Colonus is a short story written by E. M. Foster,which is adopted Oedipus,a Greek tragedy,as a prototype. In this story,mythological archetype and symbolism are used a lot to reveal the social problems of the industrial Britain and criticize the indifference between people. This paper is to analyze the mythological archetype and symbolism in The Road from Colonus from the perspectives of plots,characters and images,in order to make a more comprehensive explanation of Foster＇s concern about the modern Britain and express the infinite nostalgia for ancient Greek and ancient Rome.