空间化历史、斯芬克斯因子与王权伦理:《狼厅》的伦理意义

Spatialized History,Sphinx Factor,Ethics of Monarchial Power——An Ethical Literary Criticism of Wolf Hall

当代英国女作家布拉里·曼特尔在其小说《狼厅》中,有意消解对亨利八世与凯瑟琳离婚案的既有认知,采用空间化的时间叙事策略将其重塑为一场由斯芬克斯因子失衡所致的伦理事件。由于亨利的双重伦理身份,其兽性因子的膨胀不仅使他本人深陷欲念之中而惶恐不安,也使民众的民族身份焦虑感在国王伦理选择中进一步凸显与激化。离婚案的最终解决扭转了一度沦为亨利欲望工具的王权机制,更为重要的是,它使都铎王朝臣民完成由对神的崇拜过渡至对王的崇拜,确立了王权伦理,踏上了英国近代民族之路。

Contemporary British Writer Hilary Mantel intents to deconstruct the known understanding of the divorce case between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon in Wolf Hall by using the narrative strategy of spatiality of time to reshape the divorce as an ethical matter of the unbalanced Sphinx factors. Due to Henry＇s double ethical identities, his animal factor is inflated, which not only unsettles him as a result of his desires, but reflects and intensifies British people＇s anxiety of national identity during their king＇s ethical choice. The final resolve of the divorce changes the monarchial system which once was a machine to fulfill Henry＇s desires. More importantly, it makes the people in the Tudor Dynasty change their worship from God to the monarch, thus, identifying the monarchial ethics and opening the way to modem British nation.