《爱玛》女主人公的认知唯我主义与心智误读

On the Heroine’s Cognitive Solipsism and Mismindreading in Jane Austen’s Emma

简·奥斯丁笔下的女性人物在婚恋交际中由于种种原因往往陷入社交困境,从社会认知的角度来看,其根源主要在于心智误读。《爱玛》中的女主人公爱玛原本拥有很强的社会认知能力,但是受认知唯我主义的影响,并不能准确地解读他人的心智。在朋友哈丽特的婚姻问题上,爱玛的认知唯我主义导致她从自我角度出发,自以为是地干涉和操纵他人的情感。虽然不是出于自私的目的,但她的行为险些害了自己也害了他人。她的心智误读受到了哈丽特的诘问,这也使她最终意识到了自己一直以来所犯的错误,避免未来生活再受认知唯我主义的干扰。

Jane Austen’s female characters are often stuck in social strife when they deal with marriage affairs due to various causes.A social cognitive perspective will claim mismindreading as the cognitive cause of these social defeats.In Emma,the epony⁃mous heroine actually owns good social intelligence,but she always mismindreading other characters because of her strong cognitive solipsism.When she instructs Harriet in mate selection,her cognitive solipsism makes her to judge only from her own assumptions.Although with no selfish purposes,her wrong judgements and behaviors nearly cause harm to both herself and others.Emma was heckled by Harriet and she finally realizes her errors.