阳光下的黑暗,暗夜中的星光--对《井》中女性人格二元对立的分析

Darkness in the Sun,Starlight in the Dark——An Analysis of the Binary Opposition of Female Personality in The Well

伊丽莎白·乔利是当代澳大利亚文学最具有代表性的女性作家之一,在1986年,她的代表作《井》曾获得了澳大利亚最高文学奖“迈尔斯·富兰克林”奖。在这部小说中作者描绘了一个个形象丰满个性鲜明的女性角色,她们分别是:为爱痴狂的海斯特,暗黑萝莉凯瑟琳和尖酸刻薄的博登太太。本文主要从心理学入手,分析三位女性人物人格转变的成因,并应用康德二律背反的概念结合当时的时代背景对三位女性人格的二重性进行分析,并对其精神层次进行深入解读,以此深化读者对这部小说中人物形象的理解。

Elizabeth Jolley is one of the most iconic women writers of contemporary Australian literature,and in 1986 her masterpiece The Well won the Miles Franklin Award,Australia’s highest literary prize.In this novel,the author portrays a rich cast of characters with distinctive personalities:the love-struck Hester,the dark Loli Katherine and the caustic Mrs.Borden.This paper analyses the causes of the transformation of the three women’s personalities from a psychological point of view,and applies the Kantian concept of dichotomy to analyse the duality of the three women’s personalities in the context of the time and to interpret their spiritual levels in order to deepen the reader’s understanding of the characters in this novel.