本能和环境的自然主义刻画——《蓝色旅馆》人物性格分析

Naturalistic Description of Instinct and Environment——Analysis of Characterization in Blue Hotel

《蓝色旅馆》是美国著名作家斯蒂夫·克莱恩创作的优秀自然主义小说之一。小说通过对瑞典人恐惧本能的描述,揭示了其从恐惧到失控再到死亡的过程。本文着重对小说主要人物性格进行了刻画分析,指出瑞典人的死亡是人的本性与环境共同作用的结果。

Blue Hotel, one of the excellent naturalist novels written by famous American writer Stephen Crane, describes theSwede’s terror by way of his instinct and reveals the process from his terror to lose of control to death. This essay mainly analysesthe characterization in Blue Hotel and draws a conclusion that the Swede’s death is attributed to the joint factors of theenvironment he lived in and human nature.