从闺房到战场:《辛白林》的拓扑空间观

From bedroom to battlefield:a topological study of Imogen’s Cymbeline

拓扑是空间的一种表现形式。从拓扑空间视域出发,审视莎剧《辛柏林》中多个功能拓扑空间,还原该剧的权利关系及莎翁的女性观。起初,伊摩琴是男性监督和审视的对象,她所在的闺房空间成了女性身体的隐喻;后来,她换装进入山洞——拓扑空间的边界,权力关系在此空间阈限悄然变化;最后,在战场空间内,和解主题成为敌我、君臣、父子、夫妻冲突共生的拓扑不变量,其映射关系是由拓扑同源异相属性决定的。拓扑空间的平行结构在一定程度上解构了文艺复兴时期盛行的等级制结构。

Topology is one of the space forms.Take Cymbeline as an example,the thesis analyzes the power relations and gender issue by the topology of different functions.In the first place,Imogen is under supervision from monarchical and patriarchal power,and the room locked her becomes a symbol of women’s body.Later,man suit allows Imogen to step into the cave,the spatial boundary of topology,where authorized power is decaying.At last,on the battlefield,settlement becomes the topological invariant among monarch-subject,father-son,and husband-wife relations,whose reflective relation is decided by the homology of topology.The paralleled structure of the three places overturns the hierarchy tradition in the Renaissance to some extent.