《夏与烟》中阿尔玛人物命运的存在主义解读

The Existential Interpretation of the Fate of Alma in Summer and Smoke

田纳西·威廉斯的《夏与烟》一般被理解为一个传统保守的女性追求爱情而未果,最后沦落的悲剧故事。阿尔玛既是那个保守的女主人公,也是最受批评和同情的对象。威廉斯曾在他的自传中表达他对萨特存在主义哲学的深深着迷,从存在主义的三个概念—自欺、处境、自由入手,基于萨特对三个概念的定义,以剖析阿尔玛人物命运的存在主义特征,重新审视劳拉的人物命运,从理论上思考她在全剧中的成长,最终分析总结出劳拉成长历程的完满性、人物命运的喜剧性。

Summer and Smoke ,written by Tennessee Williams, is often interpreted as a tragic story of a conservative girl who seeks for love but fails and lives a downgraded life in the end;Alma thus is the conservative heroine who has been criticized and sympathized. Williams once expressed that had been deeply attracted by Sartre’s existential philosophy. Based on Sartre’s definition of “bad faith”,“situation” and “freedom”, which are some of the central ideas of his existential philosophy, this paper intends to explore the existential characteristics of Alma’s fate and aims to rethink her destiny and growth in the play. This paper concludes that there is completeness in Alma’s growth and happiness in her destiny.