文学伦理学视角下班克斯的孤儿身份和伦理困境

On Banks’s Identity of Orphanage and Ethical Dilemma from the Perspective of Literary Ethics

诺贝尔文学奖获得者石黑一雄的作品《我辈孤雏》隐含了多样的文学伦理问题。利用文学伦理学批判的基本方法,梳理主人公班克斯的孤儿身份与其家人及自身伦理选择的因果关系,班克斯遭遇的伦理困境和抉择结果反映了时代对伦理方面的限制,小说中主要人物的伦理纠葛,揭示了小说中隐含的伦理批判和教诲的意义。

When We Were Orphans,a work from Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Kazuo Ishiguro,contains various literary ethics cases.This article,by using the basic approach of literary ethics criticism,unfolds the cause and effect relationship between protagonist Banks’s identity of orphanage and ethic selections made by the Banks.The ethical dilemma Banks involves and choices he makes can mirror the ethical limitation from the Times;the ethic knots facing major characters in the novel uncover the connotative criticism and educational significance in the work.