《达洛维夫人》中“生与死”主题的解析

Analysis of Life and Death in Mrs. Dalloway

《达洛维夫人》是英国现代主义作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的重要代表作。在这篇小说中,伍尔夫表现了许多主题。例如:"生与死""理智健全与精神错乱""战争对人的影响",等等。本文通过主人公克拉丽莎·达洛维夫人和赛普蒂默斯·沃伦·史密斯来探讨"生与死"的问题。两人虽然从未谋面,但是,他们身上有一些共同的特征把他们联系在了一起。"生与死"的问题一直困扰着他们,并影响着他们的正常生活。他们都曾经想到了死,克拉丽莎战胜死亡,选择继续生存下去;但是,赛普蒂默斯却选择自杀结束了生命。

Mrs. Dalloway is considered to be one of the most important masterpieces of the British modernist Virginia Woolf. In this novel, Woolf reflects many themes, such as ＂life and death＂, ＂sanity and insanity＂, ＂the effects of war on people＂ and so on. This paper will focus on ＂life and death＂ through Clarissa and Septimus. Although they have never met each other, their same charac- teristics get them together. The problem of ＂life and death＂ puzzles them and affects their normal life. Both of them have once thought of death. Clarissa overcomes it and continues to live, while Septimus commits suicide.