论阿卡狄亚的衰落

On the Decline of Acadia

斯托帕德剧作《阿卡狄亚》采用不同时空交错、并置的结构,使19世纪初英国乡村庄园里的贵族生活和百年后人们对庄园历史的探究实现"穿越",表现工业化进程、西欧革命和战争对贵族社会的冲击,借以反思19世纪以来的现代化进程,同时展现当代人对昔日美好时光的怀念与追忆,从而使剧作与以往的社会批判和道德谴责之作判然有别,在思想与艺术上实现了对先贤时俊的超迈。

Through the structure of time-space interweaving and juxtaposition, Stoppard’s play Acadia combines the decadent noble life in an English countryside in the early 19 th century with the contemporary people’s research about it. The play reflects how the industrialization, European revolution and war shook the feudal aristocratic force and made the aristocrats far away from their ＂Acadia＂. The play also describes the contemporary people’s reminisces of the past peaceful and comfortable life, and rethinks profoundly about the process of modernization. Therefore, the play Acadia is different from the former works of social criticism and moral condemnation, and surpasses the other great dramatists’ plays in the achievement of thoughts and art.