《逃离魔法师》的女性主义解读

A Feminist Reading of Iris Murdoch's The Flight from the Enchanter

通过考察《逃离魔法师》中女性在教育、职业生涯和两性关系方面所面临的不平等以及男性阴影下的女性间的友谊,发现二战后父权制传统下的女性仍是由男性定义的他者,力争平等自由的主体地位的女性难以摆脱在男性的魔咒下矛盾挣扎的命运,性别藩篱下的女性友谊也难以升华成真正的友谊。《逃离魔法师》反映了二战后英国各阶层的女性在以男性为中心的父权制社会仍处于从属地位的真实处境与生存状态,揭示了默多克思想脉络里潜藏的女性主义意识。

Although the renowned English novelist Iris Murdoch refused to be labelled as a feminist writer,her early novel The Flight from the Enchanter is imbued with the feminist consciousness,obliquely reflecting the true situations and the existential status quo of the British women from different classes who still subordinated to men in a male-centred patriarchal society.The feminist perspective used by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex,coupled with Iris Murdoch＇s conception of love,fantasy,freedom,attention will be applied to examine the inequality encountered by women in the fields of education,career and sexual relationships and the female friendship under the male shadow.The conclusions can be drawn that women were still the absolute Other defined by men under the tradition of the post-war partriarchal society,women who endeavor to gain freedom,equality and the subject position were still doomed to struggle under the male enchantment,and the female friendship shrouded by the sexist discrimination cannot sublimate into true friendship.