吸血鬼故事下的深层文本——《德拉库拉》中的英爱关系解读

Deep Text in Vampire Stories——An Interpretation of the Relationship between Britain and Ireland in Dracula

爱尔兰作家布朗姆·斯托克的长篇小说《德拉库拉》描写了人类与吸血鬼之间的殊死搏斗。长期以来《德拉库拉》被视为一部供人消遣的吸血鬼题材小说,然而在其吸血鬼故事框架之下却隐藏着一个深刻的社会叙事文本。斯托克以当时流行的哥特式小说来隐射19世纪中后期爱尔兰人在大英帝国统治之下的生活处境,以及英国人对于包括凯尔特民族在内的异族文化的焦虑与恐惧。小说暗示自我与异类、主体和客体之间只有彼此了解,和谐共处才能维护社会和自身的稳定发展。

The Irish writer Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula describes the mortal struggle between human beings and vampires.For a long time,Dracula has been regarded as a vampire novel for people to amuse themselves.However,a profound social narrative text is hidden under the framework of its vampire story.Stoker used the Gothic novels popular at that time to allude to the Irish living situation under the British empire in the middle and late 19th century,as well as the anxiety and fear of the British for foreign cultures including Celtic.The novel implies that only when self and otherness and subject and object understand each other,can harmonious coexistence maintain the stable development of society and itself.