《木马赢家》中语言建构的隐含男权

The Implied Patriarchy Made by Language in “The Rocking-Horse Winner”

《木马赢家》是劳伦斯晚期著名的短篇小说。该小说被拍成了影片,还选进了校园课本,其影响非常巨大。小说讲述了小男孩保罗之死的故事,也因为小男孩的死,对母亲海斯特的评论大都持负面批判态度,却对父亲的"不在场"所隐含的男权关注甚少。分析文本,发现保罗之死与母亲并没有绝对的关系,而是小说中语言所形成的"男权象征体系"误导了读者,将母亲推向了审判席。

“The Rocking-Horse Winner”is a famous short fiction of Lawrence’s late works,which produces a great influence on people after being made into movie and selected into school and university curricula. The fiction tells a story about the death of a little boy named Paul. Just due to his death,most criticisms on the mother Hester hold the negative views but seldom analyze the implied patriarchy by the father’s“absence”. Scrutiny of the text finds out that Paul’s death is not absolutely related to his moth-er but the“patriarchal order”———a symbolic order made in the language of the fiction,misleading readers and pushing the mother to the judgment seat.