善恶的交织与博弈:评莫特利《别让人写我的墓志铭》

Interlocking and Combating of Evils and Virtues in Willard Motley's Let No One Write My Epitaph

莫特利在《别让人写我的墓志铭》里从善中有恶、恶中有善和善恶博弈描写了美国芝加哥下层社会之青少年成长问题、女性人权问题和吸毒问题,揭示下层百姓生存空间与社会伦理的内在关联,展现了人性善恶与人性本真的多维搏击。莫特利从次道德之恶、牺牲自我之恶和寻求正义之恶描写了恶中有善的社会现象,否定了恶的绝对性和纯粹性;他还揭示了善中有恶的社会现象,并且还认为善恶是可以相互转化的,坚信从善到恶的转化取决于人的心理意图。

In Let No One Write My Epitaph,Willard Motley describes the juvenile problem,women problems and drug-addiction problems in the underclass society in Chicago from the aspects of evils in virtues,virtue in evils and the combat between evils and virtues,discloses the internal correlation between social ethics and existential space of common people living in underclass society,and presents the multidimensional combat between the ideas of human virtues and vices and the original essence of human nature. From the evils in sub- morality,self- sacrifice and justice pursuit,he delineates the virtues existing in evils,negating the absoluteness and completeness of evils. In addition,he reveals the social phenomena concerning the evils in virtues,maintaining that virtues and evils can be transferred mutually,and this change determinedly results from the inner intention of a person.