基于二元对立原则浅析《卡斯特桥市长》的悲剧思想

An Analysis on the Tragic Thoughts in The Mayor of Casterbridge From the Perspective of Binary Opposition

托马斯·哈代是英国维多利亚时期著名的小说家兼诗人。《卡斯特桥市长》是其以威塞克斯为叙述背景的"性格与环境小说"中的代表作之一。二元对立原则是结构主义核心理论,其作为现代结构主义语言学的理论基础被广泛应用于文学创作及文学评论中。通过分析该小说的三组对立项,即人物美好愿望与悲惨命运、男性与女性及农业文明与工业文明探索作者如何巧妙地运用二元对立原则体现小说悲剧思想,渲染悲剧色彩。

Tomes Hardy is one of the most prominent British novelists and poets in the Victorian period. The Mayor of Casterbridge is among his masterpieces of character and environment novels,the background of which is set in Wessex. As the theoretical basis of modern structuralist linguistics,binary position principle is widely used in literary creation and literary criticism. With this principle,an analysis of three dominant pairs of binary opposition,namely man＇s will and tragic fate,male and female,as well as agricultural and industrial civilization respectively is made to expound the tragic thoughts embodied in the novel. Thus a conclusion can be drawn that Hardy is good at applying the principle of binary opposition to highlight the tragic thought of the novel and enhance the tragic atmosphere.