《时间边缘的女人》中康妮的伦理身份与伦理选择

Ethical identity and ethical choice of Connie in Woman on the Edge of Time

本文取文学伦理学批评理论为视角探寻小说《时间边缘的女人》深刻的隐喻及象征意义,从康妮丧失伦理身份入手,分析以康妮为代表的人类在20世纪70年代所处的伦理困境。以康妮自由进入乌托邦与反乌托邦社会来对自身伦理身份进行认知,这象征人类在特殊的历史阶段需做出的伦理选择。作者刻画的乌托邦与反乌托邦两个社会对人类的伦理选择具有价值导向的作用,小说在乌托邦和反乌托邦两个社会的建构与解构过程中展现出人性的失落与回归。小说蕴含着丰富的伦理教诲与启迪,同时寄寓着作者对后工业时代人类生存的社会与自然环境的深刻思考。

As a representative work of ecofeminism,Woman on the Edge of Time tells the story of an American woman Connie who can travel to the future.Taking the theory of ethical literary criticism as the research perspective and starting from the loss of Connie's moral identity,this paper explores human's ethical dilemmas represented by Connie in the 1970s.Through her free access to the utopian and the dystopian societies,Connie is able to recognize her own ethical identity,which signifies the ethical choices made by humans in certain special historical phases.The utopia and dystopia societies which the author describes have the function of value orientation to the ethics of human choice.The novel demonstrated the lost and return of human nature during the processes of constructing and deconstructing the two societies.The novel contains rich ethical teachings and enlightenment.At the same time,it also entrusted the author's deep thinking to the social and natural environment that the human survives on in the post-industrial era.