摩尔·弗兰德斯与她的“无名姓氏”男人们

Moll Flanders and Her Anonymous Men

《摩尔·弗兰德斯》是英国著名作家丹尼尔·笛福的一部杰出作品,书写了出生在新门监狱的女性摩尔从小至老颠沛流离、为生计受男性诱惑失身、继而转嫁多次、终而沦落成为娼妓盗贼的人生故事。小说一经问世,就引起了各界评论家、学者的热切关注,流转多年而经久不衰,数度被搬上银幕被大众所熟知。本文就该部著作的写作特色——不见名姓各类男性角色的出现,分析了男人们与摩尔人生历程的关系,进而说明男权社会对女性的欺压、资本主义社会腐朽的婚姻观、丑陋的道德观和唯利是图的价值观,并洞悉了笛福以批判现实主义的写作手法发展了具有女性主义意识的写作主张。

Moll Flanders is an outstanding work by Daniel Defoe,a famous British writer. In the novel,a female named Moll Flanders who was born in Newgate prison is depicted. The story includes her ups and downs from her childhood to her late life. Among her whole life experiences,she was lured to lose her virginity by a male; she got married to many men; finally she fell low to be a prostitute and a thief. The novel arouses the eager concerns of the critics and scholars; meanwhile the works has been adapted to movies many times and becomes popular with people. The paper analyses the relationship between Moll and the men without names,who appeared in Moll’s life.With the analysis,the paper exposes the oppression of female by male,the corrupted marriage concept in the capitalism society,the ugly moral concept as well as the gainful and avaricious value outlook. At the same time,the paper demonstrates that Daniel Defoe develops feminist consciousness in his realistic style novels.