《使女的故事》中的时空关系研究

On Time-space Relationship in The Handmaid's Tale

在《使女的故事》中,阿特伍德精心编排了各种时空关系,使过去与现在、历史与未来并置,将现实与虚幻、回忆和梦境相互交融,让时空自由切换、相互转化,使小说呈现出时空重叠、多层嵌套的多维叙事空间,也诠释了自己的时空观。面对时间的囚禁,女主人公诉诸于空间的探索,展开空间想象,尝试身体上的逃离和精神上的突围,不断拓展着自己的生存空间。

In The Handmaid's Tale,Atwood carefully arranges various time-space relationships,juxtaposing past and present,history and future,blending reality and illusion,memory and dream,and allowing time and space freely switching and transforming to each other,so as to present the overlapping and multi-layered nesting of time and space and express Atwood's own view of time-space relationship.Facing the captivity of time,the heroine resorts to space exploration and imagination,and tries to escape physically and spiritually in order to constantly expand her living space.