论《逃离》中的“替罪羊”形象

On the Scapegoat Image in Runaway

艾丽丝·门罗获得诺贝尔文学奖的短篇小说集《逃离》中的同名短篇小说《逃离》,女主人公卡拉在18岁时离家出走去寻找一种"更为真实的生活",但几年后她发现这种生活也让她难以忍受,于是再次逃离。在第一次逃离的过程中,她以为逃离就可以寻回和拯救自己,以至于犯下"罪过"而不自知,直到一头名叫"弗洛拉"的小山羊为她抵罪。面对"弗洛拉"的结局,她醒悟过来,不再选择逃离。这似乎未给出女性走出生存困境的确定方式,但我们仍可以从门罗所讲故事中发现其中经常出现的"替罪羊"形象在文章发展结构中的表现。由于"弗洛拉"的替罪,卡拉的两次"逃离"令读者印象深刻甚至感同身受,也体现了其在揭示"逃离"主题的作用。

Alice Monroe won the Nobel Prize for Literature collection of short stories ＂Runaway＂. In the short story with the same title ＂runaway＂, the heroine Carla went out to fred a ＂more real life＂ at age 18. A few years later she found this type of life also unbearable, so she escaped again. In the first escaping, she thought escaping can recover and save herself and she could commit ＂sin＂ without knowing it, until a little goat named ＂flora＂ expiate for her crime. In facing the incident of ＂Flora＂, she woke up and no longer escaping. This story does not seem to give women the right way to get out of the predicament of life, but we can still find the ＂scapegoat＂ image from Monroe＇s stories in the development of the structure of the article. As a result of＂ Flora＂ expiate for the crime, Carla＇s two escaping make the reader impressive and even empathy, which also reflects its ＂runaway＂ theme.