《彼得兔的故事》和《玫瑰与野兽》之人与动物关系问题

The Relationship Between Man and Animal on the Works of“The Tale of Peter Rabbit”and“The Rose and the Beast”

文学、文化批评领域正在经历伦理批评的回归,动物伦理问题成为伦理批评中一个重要问题。本文通过重读《彼得兔的故事》和《玫瑰与野兽》这两本经典儿童书,对动物伦理中人与动物的边界问题和人与动物的关系问题进行研究。这两个故事都打破了人与动物的边界,既表现了动物身上的“人性”,也表现了人身上的“动物性”。人与动物之间不再是“同者”和“他者”的关系,而是“共在”的、尊重的关系。

The field of literary and cultural criticism is experiencing the return of ethical criticism,and the issue of animal ethics has become an important issue in ethical criticism.This paper rereads the two classic children’s books,“The Tale of Peter Rabbit”and“The Rose and the Beast”,to study the issue of the boundary between humans and animals and the relationship between the human and the animal.Both of the stories break the boundary between humans and animals,and show the“humanity”of animals as well as the“animality”of humans.The relationship between humans and animals is no longer a relationship of“the same”and“the other”,but a relationship of“common existence”and respect.