《潜伏者》中汤姆-汤姆的伦理选择

On the Ethical Choice of Tom-Tom in Prowler

澳大利亚当代作家玛丽安·梅·坎贝尔的作品通常致力于挖掘现代社会的种种复杂问题。她的第三部小说《潜伏者》聚焦于女主人公汤姆-汤姆的家庭生活,以倒叙和插叙的写作手法回顾了其四十四年的短暂人生。汤姆-汤姆生长于非核心家庭的伦理环境,缺少父母关爱,在祖母自由式的教育下始终无法正确认识自己的伦理身份,在组建婚姻和家庭时总是做出错误的伦理选择。她以离婚终止了第一段婚姻,以沉默逃避着第二段婚姻,最后在寻求族裔身份时勇担伦理责任,终于完成了自我伦理身份的建构。通过汤姆-汤姆的人生轨迹不难发现,良好的伦理环境对于个人认清伦理身份、承担伦理责任有着十分重要的作用,这为当代婚姻和家庭提供了诸多借鉴意义。

The contemporary Australian writer Marion May Campbell has composed many works reflecting complicated modern social issues.Her third novel Prowler focuses on the family life of TomTom by flashbacks and interludes to review her short life.Tom-Tom grows up in a non-nuclear family without parental care having been raised by her loose-minded grandmother alone.She is not capable of defining the ethical identity and always makes wrong ethical choices in her marital life.As a result,her first marriage is terminated by divorce and the second is evaded by silence.Eventually,she picks up courage to take the responsibility in seeking ethnic identity,which helps her succeed in constructing the ethical identity.In the story of Tom-Tom,it is easy to detect that a good ethical environment makes a great difference for individuals to recognize ethical identity and assume ethical responsibilities,which provides a good example for contemporary marriage and family life.