无产者迷思:奥威尔的阶级局限性解析

The Myth of the Proles : An Analysis of the Limitations of Orwell’s Class Consciousness

身为一名以政治写作见长的作家,乔治·奥威尔在写作生涯中持续关注无产者这一群体,并将其作为文学作品中的重要元素。奥威尔试图深入了解无产者,并理清他们与自己的关系。在此过程中,他对无产者的认知经历了由积极到消极的转变。通过对比奥威尔在作品中对无产者刻画的前后差异,结合他与无产者交流的实际体验,并从他特殊的中产阶级出身出发,能够分析得出:由于自身阶级局限,奥威尔尝试打破阶级疆界与无产者建立纽带的努力注定以失败告终。而他在作品中对无产者迷思的构建则是这一努力失败在文学层面上的反映。

As a writer famous for political writing,George Orwell has kept up an interest in the proles throughout his writing career,making them one of the major elements in his literary works. Orwell made great efforts to understand the proles and his relationship with them. During the process,his attitude towards the proles turned from positive to negative. This paper compares the differences in Orwell's portrayal of the proles in his works,relates to his experiences with them,and analyzes the problem from the perspective of Orwell's unique class identity. Thus,it concludes that due to the limitations of his class consciousness,Orwell was doomed to failure when he tried to break the class boundary and bond with the proles. The construction of the myth of the proles in his works is a literary reflection of the failure.